What Does FTP Stand For?
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. (that’s a mouthful!) What it is, is a set of standards by which files can be transferred across the internet, usually from one computer to another. Just as HTTP (like the http:// you see at the top of this site, or before any URL that you visit on the net), is a protocol, so is FTP (but not for browsing, for transferring). Usually the FTP for a site will be something like ftp://download.com (or whatever domain you are accessing). It is just a set of rules by which servers can communicate and transfer files across the net (rather than viewing files as you do on an HTTP site).