This is a discussion on Re: How Big Can a Mail Attachment Be? - Mozilla ; >>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 ...
>>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=definerotocol
that are part of a layer of the Internet
http://google.com/search?q=cache:uQk...3+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:ZaA...in-Name-Server
The easiest comparison is to the HTTP protocol:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:OZA...-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.
