Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

[David Teague <dbt@tinuviel.cs.wcu.edu>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, 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. 
> 
> Jason

Hi Jason, Willy and Ray

I am not a networking authority, so I asked a colleague (Mark
Holliday) who is.  He says http is optimized for relatively small
files, mainly web pages, which are not terribly large, (what? 2 or 3
K?)  whereas ftp was designed to be optimal files that may be very
large.

I'd appreciate hearing more on this from others.

--David
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