Someone brought this to me off list, and I figured I should put it up on
the main list too just in case someone else has the same question:

> I'm doing some research on the Matterhorn capture agent and I was using
> your Capture Agent wiki page as a reference
> http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Capture+Agent+Communication+Protocols
> 
> One of the things you mentioned is that the HTTP ingest method is the
> better method and is encouraged to be used over the zip method, but the
> reference capture agent still uses the zip upload.  (Unless it was
> changed in 1.4)
> 
> My question then is that statement still valid?  Would you still use the
> HTTP ingest method over the zip ingest method.

Yes, for sure.  The reason we have not removed the zip-based ingest
method is because some thirdparty CAs depend on it, and because no one
has had time to remove it yet from the reference CA.

The issue with the zip-based ingest is that the CA has to spend a bunch
of time packaging potentially 10s of GBs of data, and then (more
importantly) the core has to unpackage it!  This takes a while, and has
been known to reduce some storage configurations to smoking ruin.  It
also has a bad habit of taking longer than many (proxy) systems are
comfortable with, which leads to problems like
http://opencast.jira.com/browse/MH-8884.

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