Linking to an ftp site

You can have a link that opens a file transfer session. For example:

<a href="ftp://mysite.com">

Not everyone can access every FTP server. Some system administrators may restrict access to their files to a local or selected group of users. Others administrators may choose to make all of their files available to everyone.

If there is no access restriction, the FTP server allows everybody to access the files; these servers are called anonymous FTP servers.

Although the anonymous FTP server has unrestricted access, it usually still has a logon procedure. Most anonymous FTP servers are set up to accept "anonymous" as the user identification. For the password, they usually accept your e-mail address.

Here is an example:

<a href="ftp://anonymous:ann.gilliver@lineone.net">

Site administrators can restrict anonymous FTP services to a specific number of concurrent users to reduce the drain on their server's overall performance. For instance, they can limit the number of users connected at one time to 25, 250, or whatever they want. Administrators may also restrict access to certain times of the day, often outside their regular business hours.

If an FTP server has an access restriction, it requires a user identification code and password before you can access its files. You can supply the username, password and domain.