[5586] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
bandwidth considerations of ftp vs http
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Wed Sep 14 18:04:23 1994
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 23:53:19 +0200
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From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
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It has been impressed upon me many times that http is, despite the debate
about keeping connections alive, more efficient than ftp. This is
obvious for small files - FTP opens two virtual circuits comapred to
HTTP's one. But is this the case for large files? Is there a difference
to serving >500K files via http and ftp?
Brian
