Re: download speed question

2004-08-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 04:44:42AM -0700, ann kok wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Do you think there is different for the download speed
> using wget in https and http?
> 
> If yes, ls it big different?
> 
> Thank you

I would think that https would generally be slower due to the overhead
of encryption.  How much slower I couldn't say.

Nathan
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Re: download speed question

2004-08-15 Thread Bill Moran
ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Do you think there is different for the download speed
> using wget in https and http?

Yes.  http is less overhead, thus faster.

> If yes, ls it big different?

No.  Unless you have a very old computer that is very slow to do the
encrypting/decrypting.

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