On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:22:41 -0500
"J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> James Sparenberg wrote:
> > 
> > rsync is what we are moving away from because, it doesn't have
> > what is needed.  (Can't go into details sorry)  I'm not trying
> > to sync.  I'm trying to download specific pieces of data or
> > other products.  wget and curl both work but I'm tasked with
> > finding out which one other developers/users prefer.
> > 
> > James
> 
> James, it sounds like you are doing nothing more than a survey
> on curl vs wget. My vote is with wget. Why, you ask? I have used
> it a long time. I am comfortable with it, and I like the way it
> displays info about downloading data. I don't really think that
> there is much difference in what occurs with the actual
> transmission of packets between the two methods, i.e. same
> tcp/ip implementation, same flags set in the ip headers, and 
> most likely (I have not run a test so don't hold me on this one)
> the same tos, ttl, iplen, and dgmlen. In other words, you pick
> em....

  thanks DrJung... that's what I needed.  Seems like the
conclusion is go with the one that my developers are comfortable
with and it will come out fine.  If urpmi didn't default to curl I
wouldn't have asked.

James

> 
> drjung 
> 
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> J. Craig Woods
> UNIX/NT Network/System Administration
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> 
> 

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