What is FTP? See how File Transfer Protocol moves website files, how an FTP client works, and why SFTP is the safer option.

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 ...

Anyone know if the FTP protocol spec has a threshold for file name lengths? I have a few OS X based FTP clients who will be transfersing files with 50+ chars in their file names via FTP to each other.

I loved UltraEdit for Windows, one of my key apps... one of the best features was FTP support, so that I didn't have to mess around with first downloading, and then uploading the files... now, is ...