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September 27, 2005

Understanding the FTP Protocol

WindowsNetworking has a great article up about FTP. It does a good job explaining how FTP works behind the scenes. Here's their abstract:

Out of the many protocols in existence today only a couple have been written for the purpose of data transfer. After all, not all of the Internet’s activity revolves around HTTP and web pages. This article will cover the FTP protocol and how it goes about actually doing your data transfers for you.

I particularly enjoyed the "Behold the FTP packet!" section of the article, which explains (with an example) the information contained in an FTP packet.

Click here to read the article.

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Posted by: Kevin at December 25, 2005 02:03 PM