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by matrss 901 days ago
They make an (easily made) mistake on that page: the encrypted version of FTP is not SFTP, but FTPS. SFTP is an entirely different protocol based on SSH.
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comprev 901 days ago
HTTP to HTTPS is FTP to FTPS.

"cp" to "scp" is FTP to SFTP, i.e "secure" prefix.

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