From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se   
      
   On Thu, 21 May 2009 18:05:18 +0200, pk  wrote:   
   > On Thursday 21 May 2009 17:36, Bill wrote:   
   ...   
   >> Also I am interested in FTP file transfer over Ethernet (TCP/IP). Can   
   >> someone please point me to some documentation or books or your personal   
   >> comments on "How exactly a file (binary) is fragmented at the sender end   
   >> and recovered at the receiver end?".   
   >   
   > It isn't. FTP uses TCP, which treats data (from the application point of   
   > view, at least) as a single stream.   
      
   You're right in principle of course, but doesn't FTP have some special   
   oddity so that it (at least optionally) "fragments" the file in the   
   FTP protocol itself?   
      
   I think file transfer over HTTP would be a better first example for   
   Bill.  FTP is so old and strange.   
      
   /Jorgen   
      
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