<quote who="James Wilkinson">
> >Best to use http, as it's faster. :)
>
> I don't grok that. I always use the ftp servers, on principle: .debs
> are files, hence the use of File-tp, not HyperText-tp.
First off, with FTP you have to go through the login steps. On a fast host
(ie. not my crappy 56k link), you can get that stream of "not a new package
list" results very quickly with HTTP, but you'll be waiting around for the
anonymous logins with FTP. Add to that the efficiencies of HTTP/1.1, and
you're doing much better than FTP.
> Surely someone writing documentation is familiar with the custom of
> actually reading it?
> -- Jeff Waugh, SLUG mailing list
GAR.
- Jeff
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