Re: [gopher] bandwidth overhead for gopher
> On 22 Jan 2015, at 7:51, Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> wrote:
>
> For large single prolonged transfers, such as big files, the proportion of
> headers to data is so small as to be negligible for especially big file sizes.
Also, HTTP can compress data on the fly resulting in much smaller transfer sizes than Gopher can ever do.
I wouldn’t use Gopher instead of HTTP just to save bytes.
- Kim
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