Bradley Baetz wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:06:18 -0500, Steve Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> The disk caching in Mozilla (at least in versions 0.9.2 - 0.9.7) is >> unreliable in my experience. >> >> On a Linux box (RedHat v7.2 /w 2.4.1x kernel) I download the SRPMS >> package from Mozilla's FTP site, then build and install the binaries. >> > > FTP files are never cached. The reason for this is that if you cached > large downloads, you'd end up blowing out your cache file with just ftp > data. FTP tends to involve larger files than http.
Perhaps I expressed myself badly. I do not expect Moz to cache files gotten via FTP. I mentioned FTP at all to illustrate that the Moz code in question was gotten from a known-good location (ftp.mozilla.org). Thanks.
