On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:

> > Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not
> > a proxy involved.
> 
>   why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it
> better? AFAIK they are about equally good/fast for purpose of file
> transfer...

http almost no per file overhead, ftp has a substantial amount. You only
need to compare apt-get update using both to realize why http is better
overall.

Jason

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