Download via FTP 1

[bonejoe]

Hi everybody!

Can you help me? What does it mean that you can download from a site only trough FTP. How can I use the FTP download method? What's the difference between normal and FTP download?

Thanks'
Joe

 

[Serbtastic]

To download from an ftp site, use an ftp client. To download from a website, use your web browser. Or use a web browser for both.

 

[bcastner]

Using your browser, instead of typing

http://www..etc

for a web address, type ftp://ftp.site.name

 

[rrsub]

A little more clarification:

Web browsers (Mozilla, Opera, IE) parse HTML which is Hyper Text Markup Language. It just means that the text on your document can be fancy and not plain.

HTTP is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol which means your browser wants to speak HTTP (lets say English) to the location in your URI (

http://www.mysite.com)

This will parse HTML documents located at the site

http://www.mysite.com

FTP is File Transfer Protocol. Just think of a protocol as a language (lets say Dutch). Your browser can speak HTTP and FTP (English and Dutch). With FTP, you get a File instead of Hyper Text which is downloaded to your system.

HTTP is a one-way communication between the http server and the user agent (browser)

FTP can be a two-way communication stream. Usually, most browsers will receive files only. To upload files via FTP, you need an FTP client. XP has a command line client or you can use Filezilla from filezilla.sf.net to upload and download files.