Ashley R. Looney
January 16, 2007
Post lab 1.2

1.  One way in which IP addresses and phone numbers are similar is that they both are encoded using numbers.  Each 
    individual phone line has its own private number and each IP address directs the user to a specific website.

2.  FTP is secure because it requires a log in name and password; where as, http does not.  However,
    it is more convienient for http to not require a login/password because if it did, it would have to be entered for
    every link.  I would say that FTP has more privacy due to the requirement of login name and password.

3.  I would say yes because just like with a hard disk on your own computer, you can copy, delete and rename files on an 
    FTP server as well as maintain folders to keep your files organized.

4.  both pathnames and URL's specify the
    location of the file on the given host, with slashes separating folder names.

5.  URL's must specify which computer the file is on; something that is just assumed by the pathname.
    The hostname is specified between the :// and the next /.