What is an FTP address? Files on FTP servers have URLs just the same way that web pages do. These FTP addresses function in exactly the same way, and that is to let users find particular files on servers connected to the internet. Here is what an FTP address looks like: ftp://www.netscape.com/public/browsers/communicator.hqx Notice that it looks almost identical to a web address. In fact, the only practical difference is the first three letters. Here is what an FTP address means: ftp:// indicates that the file you are searching for is an FTP file. www.netscape.com indicates the domain name of the server where the file is located. /public/browsers/ indicates the path to the directory where the particular file you are looking for is located. communicator.hqx is the actual file that you are going to download. Notice that the suffix for the file is .hqx instead of .html. This indicates the file is not a web page but a software program, in this case a Macintosh program that has been compressed with BinHex encoding.

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