KB 34

Anonymous FTP (file transfer protocol)

Article:34
Created:1999-09-01 16:39:54
Categories:
  General Concepts
  Web Publishing

Question or Symptom

What is anonymous FTP?

Resolution

  Anonymous FTP means that you or anyone else can connect to and browse
  the FTP server. The convention is to give a login name of "anonymous"
  and your e-mail address for a password. If you are using a web
  browser, it should do that for you automatically. Usually anonymous
  FTP is used for down-loading files to your machine, not uploading
  files. On SWCP's FTP server, there is a space called /pub/tmp which is
  available for anyone to use. However, any files there can be viewed by
  anyone else, and they will be erased by the server after one day.
 
  On the other hand, if you want to FTP your own private files in your
  home directory on our server then you have to use your login name and
  password for your account with SWCP. If you are using a web browser
  for FTP, then use a URL of this form
  ftp://login:password@ftp.swcp.com.

Related URLS

 ftp://ftp.swcp.com

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