Re: Archive is moving to auric / Incoming disabled
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:58:56AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> This has still nothing to do with http compared to ftp. HTTP is actually
> easier to automate as FTP. The only real advantage of FTP compared to HTTP
> is the possibility of "REGET"...
Except:
(1) FTP has an explicit concept of a directory listing, and most servers
implement this in a reasonable fashion [minor issue, but imagine doing
mget libperl-* with an http client.]
(2) lightweight ftp clients (e.g. on boot disks) are more readily
available for ftp than for http (e.g. ftp is 1/5 the size of lftp).
--
Raul
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