Re: [squid-users] ftp site

From: Squid Support (Henrik Nordstrom) <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:02:08 +0200

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 14:21, Brett Lymn wrote:
> The ftp protocol has it's own rude habits - it was designed to
> maximise link utilisation which can play havoc on a shared link.
> Having said that, overloading http as a file transfer mechanism is
> not nice either. �At least with a ftp session you can restart the
> transfer if the client and server support the feature, with http
> you are stuck sucking the whole damn thing down again.

Err, with todays stupid HTTP clients only paying attention on how to
display all that fancy HTML stuff than to get the job done proper you
are stuck sucking the whole thing down again.

The HTTP protocol has very well defined and evolved support for
restarting the download, far more defined and structured than the FTP
approach.

Also, the average FTP is far more nice at the TCP/IP layer compared
to HTTP. The nature with FTP with a few heavily used TCP connections
plays much nicer than the average nature of HTTP with many shortlived
connections.

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Received on Tue Apr 30 2002 - 14:24:06 MDT

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