Building ASP.NET Applications - Beginning C# 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional - page 352

FTP Web Site
A web site based on the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) helps you to manage and transfer
files between a local machine and a remote web site. The FTP web site offers a Windows
Explorer-like interface and exposes the folder structure where files, documents, and so
on are kept for sharing purposes.
You can access the FTP site to share, transfer, or download files from a remote FTP
site to your local computer, or you can upload files to the remote FTP site.
Figure 15-2 shows the New Web Site dialog box with the web site Location option set
to FTP.
Figure 15-2. Specifying an FTP web site
n Note Building FTP sites requires a user's credentials to be passed. Usually there is no anonymous
FTP site; you should specify the FTP address using the ftp://user:pwd@ftpaddress:port syntax.
HTTP Web Site
A web site based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is preferable for building
entirely commercial web-based products. The HTTP web site requires IIS on the local
machine of the developer, as it is configured as an application in the virtual directory
of IIS. The IIS server brings a lot of administrative power to web applications sitting
inside IIS.