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InterOffice Memo
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| bet | 5/27 | | Sana | 19.03.2017 | | Hajmi | 3.19 Mb. | | #225 |
FTP6: FTP is probably the most widely used Internet application - well, at least it makes the most noise - FTP accounts for over 40% of all the interactive Internet traffic in a given day (23% of all traffic on the Internet). FTP is a client-server protocol that provides users with rudimentary browsing of remote file systems and the ability to transfer ASCII and binary data files between systems. Security is weak at best (passwords are passed in cleartext), so the most prevalent use of the FTP protocol is on “anonymous FTP servers”. Anonymous FTP refers to guest access to FTP servers, users connect to public servers providing only an e-mail address, and receive (generally) read-only access to specific volumes of the remote system. Although the standard FTP interface is a character mode application, many graphical clients have been developed to make FTP look more like File Manager. Windows NT provides a simple FTP client and a scalable, integrated FTP server as part of the base product. Clients are available on virtually all operating systems supporting the TCP/IP protocols, the thousands of infostructure FTP servers are dominated by Unix, and announce themselves to their users as such.
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