on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:13:26PM -0500, David Teague (dbt@tinuviel.cs.wcu.edu) wrote: > 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. I've heard this though I cannot confirm it directly. An applied programming book on IP protocols would probably be useful here. More to the point, however: ftp is a bidirectional file transfer protocol. http is read-only. With http, you request, and get, a resource by URL. ftp provides for transfer *to* the remote host, as well as some command-level interactivity. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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