FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Guide

Extremely informative without being overbearing! Great descriptions!
I also give a thumbs up to Filezilla... I love its no-hassle updating...

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Originally Posted by chucknorris

CuteFTP is lot more powerful that Filezilla, but it's not free. It supports multi-part download and server-to-server transfer, two very useful features that are missing from Filezilla.

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PS ..another vote here for CuterFTP.

I'm sure most people already know this but I just wanted to mention a couple of technical details:

1. No information sent over ftp is secured. For this, you may want to consider SFTP (FTP over SSH)
2. Because no encryption is applied to the information, the transfer speeds are going to be greater as compared to other, encrypted transfer mechanisms (e.g. SFTP). You will probably notice a difference by ~20%. That is, if your FTP speeds are ~200 kBps then your SFTP speeds may be ~160 kBps: YMMV.

But, I use FTP when the information isn't sensitive or when I just need it "NOW"!

@LEO

Your post doesn't contain my favourite FTP client:
https://winscp.net/eng/index.php

WinSCP is a free FTP client, which has some features, which are really useful for some people, including myself:

- It is easily controllable by keyboard: You don't need to use your mouse at all, if you would like to do something on FTP
- It has a functionality for automatically updating the filelist at the every configured amount of time
- It allows you to save the FTP connections and easily connect to them
- And it's BEST feature is, that it allows you to edit files DIRECTLY from FTP, which means, that the program downloads the file to a temp folder, opens it from there, and when you edit and save it, it updates it on FTP. With this functionality you can edit text files on FTPs as fast as possible :)

This is nice tutorial... Can you please post some good article on HTTPS?

Thanks

Hey Bro..

Can you please share your views about FTP vulnerabilities?

Like anonymous shares, Clear text passwords and and other.

By the way thanks for this wonderful article.

Filezilla is definitely my favorite for ease of use for free clients

Thanks for the this! Really useful!