The Archie system was developed at McGill University School of Computer Science (Canada) by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and Peter Deutsch. Archie is a system that allows you to search for files on anonymous FTP servers. In every nation in the world, there is an Archie server (and in some bigger than one nation) that periodically (within hours or days) consult national FTP sites by building and upgrading its internal list (called the Internet Archive Database) which contains all the files and directories found on each FTP controlled server. All Archie servers contain the same list. Archie servers from different nations are linked to each other, so they all have approximately the same information. Client Archiemodifica wikitesto

An Archie client is a program that can use this service. The client contacts one of the Archie servers (the closest geographically, to minimize overall network traffic) by providing a search key: the name of the file you are looking for. The server looks at its database and returns the list of FTP site addresses that have that file. Again, you should choose the nearest site. The Archie client can also automatically start the FTP client program that will transfer the file. It is obvious that a single Archie server that would deal with all FTP servers in the world would easily be overwhelmed by the contemporary requests of all network users. In Italy, the Archie server was operating at the University of Pisa at archie.unipi.it.

Currently a working copy is here. Question by webmodification wikitesto

To query the Archie server are clients available and interact with them indirectly via the web. Among the sites that provide this type of service are: Voices correlateemodify wikitesto

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