July 2007
Beginner
347 pages
4h 40m
English
FTP, the File Transfer Protocol, has been part of the Internet since there was an Internet. If you’re interested in FTP history, you might want to Google for and read RFC 959. It’s a great source of background information.
If you’re an old geek like me, you may very well still use the standard FTP offering included in most Linux distributions. It may not have all the bells and whistles, and it is not secure enough for anything but anonymous file transfers, but it still gets the job done.
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