http://www.webmonkey.com/02/36/index4a.html
Wow! One thing I’ve definitley learned is everything internet has a language all it’s own!
I’m still a little confused on what the ftp actually is. It seems to me, in this article he is saying the ftp is sometimes used instead of the http. Am I reading that correctly? The only time I’ve ever seen ftp is when you are in Dreamweaver, connecting to the server to gain access to edit your webpage. All this information is given by your web host. I hope we go into depth about what all the coding for that is.
Actually, I’ve also loaded files to an ftp site for my printing press. It sometimes takes forever to upload a file. I thought just major business like a printing press use them. I guess they’re more common than I thought!
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol – and it’s the protocol that you will use if you are transfering files through a web browser.
You can also use what the author refers to as an FTP Client. The term “FTP Client” is short for “FTP Client Software” … in class, we talked about servers and clients (or users – basically you!). Servers are computers serving up the information. When you ask for the information, that makes you (or essentially, your computer) the client, or user.
FTP Client, is used often to refer to the software on your computer, doing the transferring of information. Examples of this type of software are Fetch, WS_FTP, CuteFTP, and yes, even Dreamweaver!
FTP is one of those industry words that is used interchangeably as a noun and verb! So it’s a little confusing in the beginning