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Re: apt: http vs. ftp?



Re: apt: http vs. ftp?
> 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...

Presumably the level of overhead that is added to the download by the
protocol
itself is less for http.  This makes me curious .. why would a hypertext
transfer
protocol have less overhead on file transfers for one designed for
transferring
files?

- Chris



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