When two users need to exchange files from one computer to another the files are often too large to be exchanged through email. File transfer protocol (FTP) was initially designed to enable the uploading, downloading, and viewing of files in a very efficient manner. Once connected FTP sites are extremely user friendly, but they were not intended to be secure transfer protocols. FTP clients are the computer programs that enable connection. An FTP client must use a TCP/IP connection, the communication of the internet, in order to establish an FTP connection. An IP address is essential in effectively establishing a connection to an FTP server.
Many FTP website do not require specific user name information from users and are referred to as anonymous access sites. The users of these sites type 'anonymous' in as their user name, but still need their own password in order to be granted access. There is a wide array of settings that FTP sites can implement and these settings can vary widely from site to site. FTP has a specific syntax which is used in the command line of the client computer. The command prompt in which FTP is enabled through is: ftp. This command prompt starts a command line interface with an FTP server so users can t
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