FTP RFCs

FTP, File Transfer Protocol, is a network protocol used to transfer files between computers.

The Original RFC

• RFC 114 — A File Transfer Protocol (April 1971)

Additional RFCs

• RFC 133 — File Transfer and Error Recovery (April 1971)
• RFC 141 — A File Transfer Protocol (April 1971)
• RFC 172 — The File Transfer Protocol (Obsolete) (June 1971)
• RFC 265 — The File Transfer Protocol (Obsolete) (November 1971)
• RFC 354 — The File Transfer Protocol (Obsolete) (July 1972)
• RFC 542 — File Transfer Protocol for the ARPA network (Obsolete) (August 1973)
• RFC 765 — File Transfer Protocol (Obsolete) (June 1980)
• RFC 959 — File Transfer Protocol (FTP) (October 1985)

FTP Extensions

• RFC 2228 — FTP Security Extensions (October 1997)
• RFC 2389 — Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol (August 1998)
• RFC 2640 — Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol (July 1999)
• RFC 3659 — Extensions to FTP (March 2007)
• RFC 5797 — FTP Command and Extension Registry (March 2010)

FTP commands

• RFC 697 — CWD Command of FTP (July 1975)
• RFC 7151 — File Transfer Protocol HOST Command for Virtual Hosts (March 2014)