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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Martin Maney wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:50:30PM -0800, chamster wrote:
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> > (Various debates as to the virtues of ftp vs. http for this sort of
> > thing.)
>
> for a while (I finally stopped trying), but even aside from that I seem to
> get more consistent results both at home and from the lab, with the http:
> flavors. Purely anecdotal data, that, as is the observation that I have
> used ftp: sites with excellent results for a long time, too.
Not that I'm an expert at this, but it does seem to be zippier with http
at least from a dial-up perspective. Supposedly, http has less overhead
since FTP was built for more interaction, but I've seen folks dispute
this as well.
Steve
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