The standards that form the foundation for sending and receiving files over the Internet and corporate intranets are defined in documents called RFCs (Request For Comments) which describe how the various protocols should be implemented. At this writing, not all of the rules for secure FTP over TLS have reached the status of RFCs, but have been derived in part from Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) drafts. The following documents were used when implementing the File Transfer control:

RFC 959 documents the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), which is used for file transfer between a client and a server, and for remote management of files on a server. The Internet draft document "Securing FTP with TLS" describes a mechanism that can be used by FTP clients and servers to implement security and authentication using the TLS protocol defined by RFC 2246 and the extensions to the FTP protocol defined by RFC 2228.

RFC 1945 documents Version 1.0 of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and RFC 2616 documents Version 1.1 of the protocol. These standards govern the communication of client applications such as browsers with web servers. The File Transfer Control implements the GET and PUT commands of these standards.

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