On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:13:26PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > 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'm no authority either, but I believe your colleague is thinking of HTTP 1.0 which is everything he says it is. HTTP 1.1 has several enhancements which make it more suitable as a generic file transfer protocol, and thus apt uses HTTP 1.1. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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