Re: Who is Cturley2 ??

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:22:20 -0500, Roy and/or Janet Miller
<millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:

>But on another level, since I do have some curiosity, would you care to
>explain please what http was created to do, and does do, and ditto for ftp,
>and how or when can they overlap?

The only real difference between HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the methods that the server and
client use to talk to each other to negotiate a connection and do the
actual file transfer.

Otherwise, they are both simply file transfer protocols.

FTP being superior for file transfers as the user can specify whether
they want a file sent in ASCII or Binary mode.  If the FTP client is
left in Auto mode, then it acts pretty much the same as an HTTP
client.  The server decides what mode to transfer the file in.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro on Delphi     |
|                    Delphi Apple II Forums Web Pages                    |
| A2: http://www.delphi.com/apple2   A2Pro: http://www.delphi.com/a2pro  |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+