Tech Tips: Browers and Computer Networking
AALL Conference; July 18th, 2000
Tech Tips > Internet Terms
Application Protocols
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- FTP: File Transfer Protocol
- Used to transfer files between two machines.
- HTTP: Hyper Text Transport Protocol
- Specification for how web browsers communicate with web servers.
- POP: Post Office Protocol
- Protocol specifying how an e-mail client, such as Eudora or Outlook Express, would retrieve messages from a mail server.
- The mail-store is on the client.
- IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
- Another protocol specifying how an e-mail client would retrieve messages from a server.
- The mail-store is on the server.
- SMTP: Simple Mail Transport Protocol
- Protocol for sending electronic mail messages from one mail system to another.