File Transfer Protocols

A file is a series of bytes combined with attributes like file name, file access descriptors, etc. As a series of bytes can be converted to a string form and back, any protocol that allows to transfer text is also a file transfer protocol(not to be confused with the FTP.).

• InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is like the FTP.
• The FTP
• gnunet.org
• Gnutella
  
• HTTP
  

The list of file transfer protocols here is far from being complete.

File Sharing Software

In the context of the current section the creation of point-to-point connections is not considered File Sharing, unless the creation of the point-to-point connections is a subtask of one-to-many publishing.

Nonanonymous Server Storage Based File Sharing

• Coral Content Distribution Network
  

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_transfer_protocols