>>My methods are for HTTP, not FTP.
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>I understand. But my question is if you were to decide between downloading a file via HTTP or FTP, which would you suggest? I need to have my customers download an update file, once in a while. And I am trying to see which method I should be using.
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>Thank you.

I am no FTP expert, but for FTP you need to have a FTP service running on the server, and you must specify user rights. With HTTP you only need to have the file(s) in a directory which you can address via a URL.