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April 9th, 2002

sipher

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Originally posted by Moak
Any technical details how you come to that conclusion?

HTTP transfares data as good as FTP does, both use TCP/IP and fill frames with same efficiency. HTTP handshaking is easier, FTP brings no advantage at all. Hope it helps, Moak

I didn't someone told me that. It also seemed to be true from personal expiriencing downloading from a website as compared to an ftp but I assume there are many factors that could cause that.

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