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Re: apt: http vs. ftp?



On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, 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.

Ask him how you optimize a protocol for file size and when he fails to
explain that then you know the truth :>

Jason



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