Re: Problems with Apt-Get

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:39:51PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
> >Why are you using the ftp method?  The http method is more efficient
> >since it uses HTTP 1.1 pipelining.
> 
> *shrugs* Because I am. Maybe I'll switch to HTTP after today, but for 
> now I'm happy with ftp. Besides, HTTP = Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, 
> FTP = File Transfer Protocol. In my mind it makes more sense to use ftp 
> to retrieve those files because FTP was made specifically for this purpose.
> 
> Perhaps one day they'll improve upon FTP.

HTTP improved upon FTP long ago. The fact that the name hasn't been
changed doesn't affect this.

(I do this for a living.)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]