Below you can find Key Terminology used in FileZilla/FileZilla Pro.
- 2FA
- In a second factor authentication method users are granted access to a service or an application after successfully presenting two or more pieces of information. Such factors usually are based on something you know, have or are.
- Bookmark
- Bookmarks in FileZilla Pro save the locations of directories on remote servers. You can use them to save time in navigating complex directory structures. They’re especially useful for directories that you use frequently. See Bookmark a Directory for more information.
- Client
- A client is a computer application that you use to connect your local computer to a server on the internet. In this case, the client is FileZilla Pro. Using it, you can add, delete, or edit files and/or directories on the remote server.
- Download
- When files are transferred from a remote server to a local machine.
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol is a basic method for moving files between local and remote computers. See FTP for more information.
- FTPS
- File Transfer Protocol with TLS is a secure version of File Transfer Protocol (standard FTP). File transfers are encrypted between FileZilla Pro and the server.
- Local
- The machine on which FileZilla Pro is installed, that you’re using to control file transfers.
- MIME Types
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MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, and it is a technique that servers use to recognise the type of file being used, similar to the way Windows recognises files by their file extension (eg .txt). It helps browsers to figure out what to do with a particular file when you click on a link to it; for example, display it or download it. A MIME type typically consists of a type and a subtype.
Common MIME types are:
- text/plain (text file)
- image/jpeg (JPEG image)
- audio/mpeg (MP3 audio)
- video/quicktime (QuickTime video)
- application/pdf (PDF document)
- Overwrite
- Copying over an existing file with one of the same name and file extension. This is a term you will come across often in FileZilla Pro documentation, because it is common while copying files to come across files that you or someone else have already copied across, and you will need to tell FileZilla Pro how to handle this situation. One option is to copy over the existing file with a new one that has the same filename.
- Queue
- The queue – or transfer queue – is a list of files and directories that FileZilla Pro has been told to transfer from one computer to another, but which haven’t yet been transferred.
- Recursive
- In terms of FileZilla Pro, a recursive action on a directory affects all of its subdirectories and files in them.
- Remote
- The server that FileZilla will connect to in order to modify directories and files. Often this is geographically remote as well.
- Server
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A server is a computer that you can connect to via the internet.
Note If you want to create an FTP server, you’ll need FileZilla Server.
- SFTP
- SSH File Transfer Protocol is a method that FileZilla Pro can use to access and transfer files on a server.
- Simultaneous connections
- FileZilla Pro can open multiple connections with a server so that it can send more than one request at a time.
- TLS
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) encrypts communications between FileZilla Pro and a server.
- Unicode
- A standard for encoding, representation, and handling of text.
- Upload
- When files are transferred from a local machine to a remote server.
- User ID
- Also sometimes referred to as a User Name or User Identification.
- UTF-8
- UTF-8 is a character encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set.