Thursday, June 12, 2008

FTP

Being somewhat familiar with FTP and FTP clients, i was already use to the interface and protocol. Filezilla was already installed on my PC so that task was taken care of. Ive used FTP before when updating some websites.
Ive found FTP to be fast and relatively painless as a whole.
For the task at hand, i had to logon to the curtain ftp site recall.curtin.edu.au. And from there look at the directory structure.

Find the file called README

Then download the file, look at it and answer the following question

"according to the readme file, '_______ MATTERS' - what word goes in the blank?"

So after browsing, i found the file in the MSC folder and not at the root as described. Which was a little bit misleading.The word that was missing in the question above was
CAPITALIZATION MATTERS!

And as described in the text document,CAPITALIZATION DOES MATTER! On a UNIX server as where the file was stored, the server is case sensistive. So if directly trying to FTP to the site via a command line, we would need to make sure our Case was rite.



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