Re: apt: http vs. ftp? > 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...
Presumably the level of overhead that is added to the download by the protocol itself is less for http. This makes me curious .. why would a hypertext transfer protocol have less overhead on file transfers for one designed for transferring files? - Chris
