In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > FTP is a firewal nightmare, it is unsecure (plaintext), the more advanced > features are not standadized. Even parsing the directory output is terror to > the programmer.
On my System, running apt-spy on a ADSL Link, from 85 Debian Morrirs which support HTTP and FTP 79 of them are faster via HTTP than FTP. Most of them are 30-50% faster. I dont know, if this is because apt-spy is specially slow with FTP, or because the FTP login takes so long. But since the Test Download most often takes over 10seconds, I think the 50% cant be explained by the test which only downloads a single file. It is possible that the FTP Server is simply more loaded, but for me it is at least a good reason to use HTTP on those systems, only. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/
