On Wed, 18 Jan 95 8:14:03 CET, Arne Di Russo said: > Well if you intend to write a Netscape clone than we'll have also ftp > as I think that the http protocol is simply an extension of the ftp > protocol... (sort of automated anonymous ftp login/download/logout)
They are quite different. HTTP consists of connecting to port 80 on the remote machine, sending "GET /some/file HTTP/1.0" and reading what comes back. FTP is more complicated and for a start requires the user name and password, followed by some strange incantation including a PORT command for each file. However, if you have Netscape then you have also FTP, gopher and news, because they are all built in... imc
