On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:07:14PM -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > How inefficient is it to upload files via HTTP vs. FTP? I get the > impression there's some sort of encoding in HTTP, but I'm not sure, > and I'm not sure how bad it is.
I know ppl that claim HTTP is more efficient than FTP for downloading, because FTP has to open and close a data connection for each while still keeping a control connection open, while HTTP can just send everything down one connection with keepalive. Apparently that translates to lower server load for HTTP. Perhaps the same is true for uploading. > If I do an upload via HTTP, how can I do the client side in Python? > urllib.urlencode(vars) works for normal POST, right? But I have the > impression there's something more complicated (MIME-like) for image > uploading (the multipart/form-data enctype...?) I think you want to use HTTP PUT, not POST, to upload. But I haven't done it. -- -Mike (Iron) Orr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if mail problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://iron.cx/ English * Esperanto * Russkiy * Deutsch * Espan~ol _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
