On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:46:37PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:

>       I get that quite often and have been for a few years.  Are you
> sure that an HTTP method couldn't be made available?  ftp is an
> expensive protocol because it's interactive, not to mention that the
> protocol designers didn't have firewalls in mind.  HTTP, though less
> efficient in terms of data transfer for large files, is much easier to
> program, distribute, scale, etc.  Thoughts?  -sc

This is a legitimate concern, and possibly enough to convince us to
finally go ahead with migrating the advisories to the website :-)

Kris

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