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Dan Tobias at 00:52, 15 April 2013

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'''FTP''' (File Transfer Protocol) is a longstanding Internet protocol used to transfer files between Internet-connected systems. It actually predates basic Internet protocols such as TCP/IP and even the name "Internet" itself, and was used on the ARPAnet in the 1970s.

With the rise of the World Wide Web, it is less-used for one of its original purposes, of downloading files (such as programs and data) from remote sites, since [[HTTP]] can be used for that, but it is still widely used for uploading files to remote servers (something less well-supported by HTTP), and is often the way one gets Web pages live after developing them on a local computer. However, the increasing use of server-based web frameworks and environments, such as WordPress, is reducing the instances of creating and editing content on local PCs and sending them to a server by FTP, so usage is likely going down.

== Specs, Standards, and Proposals ==
* RFC 114
* RFC 765
* RFC 959 (official standard)
* RFC 1639
* RFC 2228
* RFC 2389
* RFC 2428
* RFC 2640
* RFC 3659
* RFC 5797

== Other links ==
* [[Wikipedia:File Transfer Protocol|Wikipedia article]]

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	With the rise of the World Wide Web, it is less-used for one of its original purposes, of downloading files (such as programs and data) from remote sites, since [[HTTP]] can be used for that, but it is still widely used for uploading files to remote servers (something less well-supported by HTTP), and is often the way one gets Web pages live after developing them on a local computer. However, the increasing use of server-based web frameworks and environments, such as WordPress, is reducing the instances of creating and editing content on local PCs and sending them to a server by FTP, so usage is likely going down.		With the rise of the World Wide Web, it is less-used for one of its original purposes, of downloading files (such as programs and data) from remote sites, since [[HTTP]] can be used for that, but it is still widely used for uploading files to remote servers (something less well-supported by HTTP), and is often the way one gets Web pages live after developing them on a local computer. However, the increasing use of server-based web frameworks and environments, such as WordPress, is reducing the instances of creating and editing content on local PCs and sending them to a server by FTP, so usage is likely going down.
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		+	FTP downloads can be linked on the Web via [[URL]]s of the syntax '''ftp://host.domain.example/path/filename.txt'''.

	== Specs, Standards, and Proposals ==		== Specs, Standards, and Proposals ==