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 ...

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 ...

Figure B Upload files As you can see it takes over two times as many lines of code to upload than it does to download a file. Download the sample application This blog post is also available in PDF ...

In current times if you want to transfer a file to a friend, you can just attach it in an email and send it off. With high speed bandwidth being so cheap and plentiful to the home user, transferring a ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

I wanted to dig deep into the world of freeware file transfer applications that compete with the popular, open-source application – FileZilla. In the past, I’ve used FileZilla as well, and also a ...

Speed Download is a download and FTP manager with features for both basic and more advanced needs. The result is a useful app, which integrates well into Safari and iTunes, and can greatly boost your ...

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 ...

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 ...