Re: Why FTP must die in two words

[Derek Martin]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:

>       HTTP adds nothing more than convenience to the command-line
>       challenged.  It's slow and bulky.

HUH?  The HTTP protocol is neither!  It's a very small, lightwieght
protocol.  What are you talking about?

This can easily be demonstrated by using telnet:

  $ telnet www.yoursite.com 80
  Trying yourip...
  Connected to www.yoursite.com.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  GET /some/path/in/the/webserver/heirarchy HTTP/1.0

[spewage follows]

The protocol itself is sufficiently compact that a web server can be
written in just a few hundred lines of code. Please explain what you mean
by "slow and clunky" as I can find no evidence of that.

-- 
Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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