Chapter 6. FTP and Telnet
Two of the oldest Internet protocols are the File Transfer Protocol, FTP, and Telnet, for remote login. They illustrate the two extremes of network protocols: An FTP session is a highly structured and predictable set of transactions; a Telnet session is unpredictable and highly interactive. Perl has modules that can tame them both.
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