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

PASSIVE

(specified with the command PASV)

With passive transfers the client asks the server for data and the server specifies how the transfer will be done. The server chooses a port and then tells the client to connect to that port and receive the data.