FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, which is essentially a means of moving files and information. It's an important aspect of the internet and is used to move files from a computer to a server ...

There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

This work around won't work with Core FTP, but for Bitvise and WinSCP where you can specify your commands in a sane manner, it works. The idea is instead of doing a cd to the directory, we just do get ...