Chapter 6. FTP: Communicating with File Servers
Background
Anybody with experience in Web design knows that in order to put the site “live,” the Web page files need to be sent to a Web server provided by your hosting company or ISP. Most people never get to see the physical machine that their Web site is hosted on, and their only contact with it is through a file transfer protocol, or FTP, program such as cuteFTP or smartFTP.
FTP is the most common cross-platform file transfer mechanism between computers over the Internet. FTP software is freely available for all major operating systems, including Windows, UNIX, and Mac OS X. This cross-platform interoperability is very important for Web site development because most Web designers work on Windows ...
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