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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:49:16 -0400
From: Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: IPFW almost works now.
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:44:02PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:27:49 -0400, Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net> said:
> 
> > No, it has a host of limitations all it's own, not the least of which is 
> > that is is actually less efficient at transfering files, 
> 
> Balderdash!  HTTP and TCP both send files over identical TCP
> connections, which makes them equally efficient.  There really is no
> reason for FTP to continue to exist (but yet it does).

OK, even not arguing the point, they are still quite different applications.
FTP still very much serves a purpose. For one thing, uploading via HTTP is
excessively non-trivial. For another, while Lynx and Links are well and
good, browsing files from a text-only medium is also non-useful with 
the currently implementations of HTTP. Sure, when I am at a desktop,
I use Netscrape/Exploder/Moz-ill-a to browse FTP sites, but it isn't
feasible when I am looking on gnu.org for the source code to gcc/make/
whatnot.

Jamie

> 
> -GAWollman
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