Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers

Chapter 13. FTP WEBBOTS

File transfer protocol (FTP) is among the oldest Internet protocols.^[41] It dates from the Internet's predecessor ARPANET, which was originally funded by the Eisenhower administration.^[42] Research centers started using FTP to exchange large files in the early 1970s, and FTP became the de facto transport protocol for email, a status it maintained until the early 1990s. Today, system administrators most commonly use FTP to allow web developers to upload and maintain files on remote webservers. Though it's an older protocol, FTP still allows computers with dissimilar technologies to share files, independent of file structure and operating system.

Example FTP Webbot

To gain an insight for uses of an FTP-capable webbot, consider ...