Quoting Bernd Eckenfels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Actually HTTP is much more reliable than FTP.
I should have defined my terms: When I said ftp transfers are more reliable than are ftp ones (in my experience), I meant that, once started, they are much less prone to dying. That is observed fact. > It features mesage digest, restart, SSL. IT allows paralle fetching of > blocks. It handles encodings and charset more transparently. Cavil: Restart and SSL can and do occur in both. However, more important to the matter at hand, none of these observations is the least bit relevant to what I was referring to. -- Cheers, Linux: It is now safe to turn on your computer. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED]