What is FTP ?

FTP is short for File Transfer Protocol, A very common method of moving files between two Internet sites. FTP was invented and in wide use long before the advent of the World Wide Web and originally was always used from a text-only interface.

FTP is a special way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending files.
FTP works in the same way as HTTP for transferring Web pages from a server to a user's browser and SMTP for transferring electronic mail across the Internet in that, like these technologies, FTP uses the Internet's TCP/IP protocols to enable data transfer. FTP is most commonly used to download a file from a server using the Internet or to upload a file to a server (e.g., uploading a Web page file to a server). 

There are many Internet sites that have established publicly accessible repositories of material that can be obtained using FTP, by logging in using the account name anonymous, thus these sites are called anonymous ftp servers.

What is FrontPage ?

Microsoft FrontPage, a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. A software program to create and manage Web pages. The FrontPage Server Extensions are actually a group of programs which run on a server. Your local server has them, and if your webs are on an Internet Server which supports FrontPage, they are on the remote server as well. In fact, every FrontPage web on a server has its' own set of extensions, as well as the server itself.

The server extensions affect 3 basic areas of functionality:
Authoring. The Server Extensions interact with FrontPage Explorer when you do file/folder 
maintenance functions, such as moving, deleting, and renaming files and/or folders in your FrontPage webs. For example, if you move a file from one folder to another, the Server Extensions will edit all hyperlinks to and from that file to point to the correct (new) locations.

Administering. The Server Extensions handle communications with the server, related to permissions, and keep track of who has done what, and when, in the case of multiple authors on a single web.

Browse-time Functionality. This is where those "WebBots" come in. When these "components" are employed in a web, the Server Extensions provide them with their functionality. In this sense, the extensions behave much like CGI programs.

What are ASP – Active Server Pages ?

An HTML page that includes one or more scripts (small embedded programs) that are processed on a Microsoft Web server before the page is sent to the user. An ASP is somewhat similar to a server-side include or a common gateway interface (CGI) application in that all involve programs that run on the server, usually tailoring a page for the user.

A server-side scripting environment that can be used to create dynamic Web pages or build Web applications. ASP pages are files that contain HTML tags, text, and script commands. ASP pages can call Component Object Model (COM) components to perform tasks, such as connecting to a database or performing a business calculation. With ASP, the user can add interactive content to Web pages or build entire Web applications that use HTML pages as the interface to your customers.
Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's server-side technology for dynamically-generated web pages that is marketed as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS).Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functionality useful for creating dynamic web pages. In ASP 3.0 there are six such built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server and Session. Session, for example, is a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page. Application Center Test is also available for load testing. Most ASP pages are written in VBScript, but any other Active Scripting engine can be selected instead by using the @Language directive. JScript (Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript) is the other language that is usually available. PerlScript (Perl) and others are available as third-party installable Active Scripting engines.

What is PHP ?

(Short for PHP Hypertext Pre-processor), PHP is a server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web content. PHP scripts can be embedded in HTML code and use similar syntax to the Perl and C programming languages. The PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a programming language that allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP is basically used for developing web based software applications.

Hypertext Preprocessor is an open source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc. PHP can be written as scripts that reside on the server and may produce HTML output that downloads to the web browser. Alternatively, PHP can be embedded within HTML pages that are then saved with a .php file extension. 

The name is a bit of a programming joke (if there is such a thing) since it's a recursive acronym i.e. the P in PHP stands for PHP.

What is Cold Fusion ?

Cold Fusion is a scripting language for web designers that want wish to do advanced development and/or database interfacing. Cold Fusion supports MS Access, dBASE, FoxPro, and Paradox databases.Cold Fusion - An application development tool from Allaire Corporation, Cambridge, MA, (www.allaire.com), for writing Web pages that interact with databases. Instead of writing tedious CGI and Perl scripts, operations are coded in the Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) which uses HTML-like tags embedded in the Web pages. The Cold Fusion engine, which interfaces with a Windows-based Web server, interprets the codes, accesses the database 
and delivers the results as HTML pages for the Web browser. 

Cold Fusion is a Macromedia software application that creates dynamic database driven HTML pages. Once a template is defined, Cold Fusion fills that template with content. Cold Fusion extension most often end with .cfm. ColdFusion is a tag based language similar to HTML, generally recognized to be fairly 
easy for people coming straight from HTML to learn. While ColdFusion is a programming language, many programmers (mistakenly) think of it more as a scripting language, due to its very simple tag-based syntax, typeless variables and weak support for programming anything but web-based applications prior to version 6 
(MX). In fact, this misconception (that ColdFusion is a scripting language) is so prevalent, that it often overshadows what ColdFusion really has become, namely, a productivity layer over raw J2EE or .NET development, more closely related to products in Bowstreet's portal development suite than a scripting language like VBA or Javascript. Imagine bits of Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JavaServer Faces, and various Apache 
components (XML-FOP, Commons, and a few other odds and ends) all rolled together, synthesized into a single coherent product, and you're getting close to what ColdFusion has evolved into.

What is PERL?

Perl Practical Extraction and Reporting Language is an open source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc. Perl scripts are not embedded within HTML pages and do not download to the web browser but reside on the server. They execute by being triggered from commands within HTML pages or other scripts and may produce HTML output that does download to the web browser. 

PERL (Practical Extraction and Report Language) - Perl is a programming language developed by Larry Wall, especially designed for processing text. Because of its strong text processing abilities, Perl has become one of the most popular languages for writing CGI scripts. Perl is an interpretive language, which makes it easy to build and test simple programs. 

Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, a robust programming language frequently used for creating CGI programs on Web servers because it is faster than UNIX shell script programs, it can read and write binary files, and it can process very large files.

  
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