Example of Downloading Files

Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes

∟1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan

∟Example of Downloading Files

This section provides an example FTP session of downloading files.

Here is an example of an FTP session that downloads files from a FTP server machine:

>ftp webserver
Connected to webserver.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
User (localhost:(none)): herong
331 Password required for herong.
Password: ********
230 User herong logged in.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
   11:05PM                 5537 ftp.html
   03:43PM                 5082 index.html
   08:39PM                 1174 reference.html
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 155 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 155000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> mget *.*
200 Type set to A.

mget ftp.html? y
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for ftp.html(5537 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 5537 bytes received in 0.01Seconds 553.70Kbytes/sec.

mget index.html? y
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for index.html(5082 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 5082 bytes received in 0.01Seconds 508.20Kbytes/sec.

mget reference.html? y
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for reference.html(1174 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 1174 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 1174000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> quit
221