Your Guide to Understanding FTP.

Connection Modes

ASCII
BINARY

Transfer Modes

ACTIVE
PASSIVE

Encryption Types

Commands

Access Control

Transfer Parameters

Service Commands

Command Aliases

SECURE FILE TRANSFERS
Secure, Automatically Encrypted, Full Featured, Easy to use FTP Site at a low cost. Free secure online FTP Client!
www.MTFTP.com

An Easy FTP Alternative
Very Secure Yet Easy To Use. NO SOFTWARE NEEDED. An Easy Web Based Alternative to an FTP Site.
FilesToGo.com

LOW COST FTP SITE / SERVER
Professional Full Featured FTP Site / Server / Hosting. Unlimited Space / Users. Free Online FTP Client Software.
www.FTPToGo.com

RETR

RETRIEVE

This command requests that the server transfers a copy of the file specified. This transfer is to be done an the data port provided by the connection. The status and contents of the file at the server remains unchanged.