** On May 11, Jason Gunthorpe scribbled: > > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Raul Miller wrote: > > > (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.] > > However, this is actually useless for mirroring so the point is moot Oh, is it? And how about versioned mirroring, based on filenames? > anyhow. Any ftp mirroring tool worth its salt should be trivially > convertable to an http mirroring tool simply by having it fetch a > pre-generated ls-lR listing over http. Very unreliable stuff and also puts some strain on the server the data is fetched from - if it has a large directory tree, regenerating lsR with every change to the file system takes much time. With ftp the client just asks the server for the listing and that's it. marek
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