April 10th, 2002
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| Connoisseur | | Join Date: August 9th, 2001 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Such as ftp or some other protocol thats' more efficient. I could be wrong but it's my understanding http is not the most efficient protocol for quick file transfers. FTP is better and there may be others better than that I don't know. I'm just curious why htey choose this protocol...
| Technically, the transfer of files isn't part of the Gnutella protocol (except the format of the GET message). So if anyone chooses FTP, that's fine. But the issue is whether other clients will support FTP - all of them support HTTP so that would be an obvious choice. I guess that gradually, developers can introduce different transfer protocols. For instance, I thought having the file e-mailed might not be such a bad idea 
-- Mike
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