On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:59:41PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 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.
>
> why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it
> better? AFAIK they are about equally good/fast for purpose of file
> transfer...
HTTP has less overhead, IIRC. For example, resumable FTP transfers
require passing additional data. No such thing for HTTP. By
stripping out all the overhead, HTTP has fewer features, but is
faster.
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