ABSTRACT
The Internet was primarily created so that researchers could exchange ideas and share the results of their work. It stands to reason, then, that one of the basic Internet services would be to enable people to copy files from one computer to another on the Internet. FTP, which stands for File Transfer Protocol, is that basic Internet service. It dates back almost to the beginnings of the Internet, the early 1970s, and it’s used to share information in any type of file. Most of these files are publicly available through what is called anonymous FTP , since no special password other than anonymous is needed to retrieve the files. A computer system that allows others to connect to it through anonymous FTP is called an anonymous FTP site or an FTP archive . The collection of files available at an anonymous FTP site is also called an FTP archive.
