On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > 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 almost no per file overhead, ftp has a substantial amount. You only need to compare apt-get update using both to realize why http is better overall. Jason