What is FTP? See how File Transfer Protocol moves website files, how an FTP client works, and why SFTP is the safer option.

Hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, and file transfer protocol, known as FTP, are two methods that allow you to upload or download files and pages from the Internet. The two have overlapping ...

Preliminary thoughts Before we get into moving files around I would like to bring a few things to light: Each request will need a NetworkCredentials object attached to its Credentials property. This ...

Downloading files using the File Transfer Protocol can be useful when accessing online file archives maintained by many companies and other organizations. FTP also can be useful for transferring large ...

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...

One of the things that has become synonymous with sourcing audio for radio broadcast is downloading the audio from a variety of FTP servers using software clients like FileZilla or WinSCP. I’ll ...

File Transfer Protocol is an older networking protocol for transferring files to network servers. Here's how to use it on your Mac. We previously covered the Terminal-based SCP protocol, which allows ...

Our iPhones and iPads are powerful mobile computing devices, and for some users that means accessing files from a wide range of remote services—including FTP—on the go. If that’s you, check out these ...