[8034] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: connection fight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lou Montulli)
Mon Apr 24 02:23:23 1995
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 02:16:56 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: montulli@netscape.com
From: "Lou Montulli" <montulli@netscape.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
On Apr 22, 3:43pm, Christopher Caserio wrote:
> Subject: Re: connection fight
> >
> > Well, I have never listened a word about Netscape being "weak" in
> > the "fight" for connections.
> > Does anybody have something to say about it ???
> >
> Netscape does *seem* to have more problems getting an FTP
> link than other tools (ftptool, ncftp, ftp); but that is
> only a feeling, not scientific at all.
The only sites that I have encountered that Netscape fails
on are ones that have broken PASV implementations. These
sites are in violation of the RFC so there isn't much
I can do about that. If you know of any sites that fail
please email me with the address.
>
> Also, Netscape (and other browsers) open and close the ftp
> connection for each transfer, whereas the standard ftp clients
> maintain the control connection for the entire session. This
> means that your browser must *fight* the traffic for each directory
> listing, file transfer, etc.
Other browsers do that, but not Netscape. Netscape reuses
FTP control connections whereever possible. It is sometimes
necessary to sever a control connection but in most cases
it is reused.
--
Lou Montulli http://www.mcom.com/people/montulli/
Netscape Communications Corp.
