On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote:
>
> > That would be backwards ftp is faster but sometimes it is easier to get
> > http through a proxy and with some proxies it would be possible that
> > http might be faster.
>
> Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not
> a proxy involved.
>
> Jason
Hi Jason, Willy and Ray
I am not a networking authority, so I asked a colleague (Mark
Holliday) who is. He says http is optimized for relatively small
files, mainly web pages, which are not terribly large, (what? 2 or 3
K?) whereas ftp was designed to be optimal files that may be very
large.
I'd appreciate hearing more on this from others.
--David
David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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