[37946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EMAIL != FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Fri May 25 23:38:01 2001
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:12:30 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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To: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Craig Partridge wrote:
> It is worth remembering that SMTP is, in most respects, simply FTP reworked.
> In many ways, HTTP is FTP badly reinvented.
>
> But for a little extra SMTP handshaking at the start, there is no efficiency
> difference in transfer rate between SMTP and FTP. Probably the same is
> true for HTTP though I've not looked.
Perhaps there is no inherent difference in throughput, but the files are
necessarily larger when sent through e-mail, as they must be base64
encoded.
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