>>HeavyDuty wrote: >> >>>Are there ftp sites one can upload to? How does one go about sending a >>>file to an FTP site? >> >Lemuel Johnson wrote: >>Here's just one of many: >>http://www.sendspace.com/ >> Ray_Net wrote: >This is an "upload file(s)" website ... nothing to do with ftp. > The 2 concepts are NOT mutually exclusive.
>In fact, i don't understand what an ftp site is. >In my opinion we have web sites and ftp servers. > You have accounted for 2 of over 65,000 ports available and 2 of the dozens of Internet protocols available. FTP is one of many protocols http://www.google.com//search?q=define:protocol that are part of a layer of the Internet http://google.com/search?q=cache:uQkucQEIyOAJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Layer+FTP+HTTP+NNTP+SMTP+Telnet+POP3+IMAP&strip=1 One obvious property of a particular protocol is which of your computer's 65,536 ports is used. http://google.com/search?q=cache:ZaASVOnYdlEJ:keir.net/portlist.html+25.Simple-Mail-Transfer+110.Post-Office-Protocol+80.World-Wide-Web+23.Telnet+HTTP+37.Time+21.File-Transfer+123.Network-Time-Protocol+119.Network-News-Transfer-*+53.Domain-Name-Server The easiest comparison is to the HTTP protocol: http://google.com/search?q=cache:OZAliFj3DOkJ:www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/FTP_HTTP.asp+*-*-browser+asp+*-ftp-*-in-*-URL+asp+asp+*-*-Web-server+not-copied-into-*-memory-*-*-*-*+*-*-*-one-way-*+asp+asp+*-view-a-*-page+asp+*-*-file-server+asp+asp+asp+*-*-*-two-way-*&strip=1 Because FTP assumes you aren't going to use the file *immediately*, FTP's overhead is extremely low. FTP clients are also very slim (compared to e.g. a Web browser). You can even do FTP from the command line. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
