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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:03:03 +0100
From:      Jamie Heckford <heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk>
To:        "Karsten W . Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_version perl hacker project
Message-ID:  <20010425200303.O31916@storm.psi-domain.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010425200136.B39540@mail.webmonster.de>; from karsten@rohrbach.de on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 19:01:36 %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104230806060.27435-100000@wildside.wagsky.com> <20010423231827.A19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424142340.E5216@brel.com> <20010424014833.B19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424120052.H89156@xor.obsecurity.org> <200104241907.f3OJ7u103414@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010424123517.A90547@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010424134637.A10180@rand.tgd.net> <20010425200136.B39540@mail.webmonster.de>

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I agree - HTTP is an excellent way to transfer *small* files.

Jamie

On 2001.04.25 19:01 Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> Sean Chittenden(sean@chittenden.org)@2001.04.24 13:46:37 +0000:
> > 	My problem with FTP is as follows:
> [...]
> > 530 User anonymous access denied.
> > ftp: Login failed.
> > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
> > ftp: Can't connect or login to host `ftp.freebsd.org'
> > 
> > 	I get that quite often and have been for a few years.  Are you
> > sure that an HTTP method couldn't be made available?  ftp is an
> > expensive protocol because it's interactive, not to mention that the
> > protocol designers didn't have firewalls in mind.  HTTP, though less
> > efficient in terms of data transfer for large files, is much easier to
> > program, distribute, scale, etc.  Thoughts?  -sc
> 
> for fetching files, http is the better and faster alternative imho. i
> got the whole mirror on filepile.nacamar.net(ftp2.de.freebsd.org)
> exported via http (the /pub path) so all i have to configure in my
> make.conf for example is replacing the ftp:// with http:// in
> MASTER_SITE_BACKUP. for quick and easy updates http is the way to go.
> you can also do all sorts of selective statistics with standard common
> logfile format access_logs better and faster with log analysis packages
> (like for example selective access statistics based on the os release
> when you push the binary packages into different basepaths).
> 
> /k
> 
> 
> 
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