what is FTP and SFTP ? i was asked this while creating a blog ?

Question

i want to creat a blog in blogger.com .....but there are 2 option to select the way of link location name that is FTP and SFTP ? plz give me some information regard to this

Answer 1

FTP is File Transfer Protocol and SFTP is Secured File Transfer Protocol.



FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is an older protocol for moving files back and forth over the Internet and other networks. All modern web browsers still speak FTP, which was sometimes used as a substitute for HTTP in the early days of the web. FTP is still used often as a means of downloading large files.

Many web hosts still offer FTP as the preferred way of uploading new web pages to a website. However, because there is no encryption of your password, FTP is not the best choice for this purpose. And since there is no encryption of the files being moved, FTP is a poor choice indeed for more sensitive information.



SFTP (Secure FTP) is a popular replacement. Built on SSL, SFTP is just as secure as HTTPS. And most modern FTP clients, such as the free, high-quality FileZilla program for Windows, support both FTP and SFTP. SFTP offers a set of features quite similar to FTP and will be immediately familiar to FTP users, although it works quite differently "under the hood."



Every Windows, MacOS X and Linux system comes standard with a simple command line FTP client program. And MacOS X and Linux also have command line SFTP clients as standard equipment. In addition, MacOS X supports connections to FTP servers in a user-friendly way, right out of the box (you can find a great tutorial on creativemac.com).

Answer 2

FTP is File Transfer Protocol and SFTP is Secure File Transfer Protocol. They allow you to remotely transfer files from your computer to a server (kind of like when you write an email and you click the upload attachment button) except with FTP it makes it so that you do not have to upload one file at a time by browsing for it, you can instead just copy and paste from your computer to the server (blogger.com for your case).



Hope that helps!

Answer 3

SFTP - SECURE FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL.



allows for Encrypted connections. All information is transferred as encrypted data packets.



FTP FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL.

Does not encrypted password or data in transfer.

login and password sent as clear text and able to be captured via network sniffer and capture.



For internet based applications I avoid FTP in favor of Secured loginid / password passing.





SFTP requires a client package such as Putty/SSH or F-Secure SSH to connect. F-Secure's product is fee based for commercial entities.

Putty/SSH is freeware.



I use F-Secure. But I manage and maintain many Unix servers.

Answer 4

FTP=file transfer protocol

SFTP=secure flie transfer protocol

Answer 5

File Transfer Protocol

Secure File Transfer Protocol



FTP is a means of uploading or downloading content to remote servers. It allows you to "see" the files on a remote server as you would a normal folder on your computer.

Answer 6

FTP = unsecured/unencrypted

SFTP = secured/encrypted



That is the simple answer.