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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libftpio ftpio.c 
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> Well, last time I sat down and thought about this, I figured you could
> advertise fetch{Get,Put}URL() as the primary interfaces but also
> provide some of the existing libftpio functions as a set of
> fetchFTPFoo() functions for those who need to do _just_ that task.  It
> may turn out that sysinstall is one such consumer for FTP media if the
> "transactional fetch" of the fetchFooURL() functions proves to be too
> slow when grabbing split distributions.  I have the rather sneaking
> suspicion that it will be. :)

Wait, I had another thought - you could do connection caching!  Yes,
with timers and an aging algorithm! :-) :-)

_ Jordan