[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven M. Schweda) writes: >> [...] CWDing into deep dir hierarchies get really slow with that >> loooong series of CWD sending! ;-) > > I'll admit that it'd be tedious for the program(s), but do you really > think it'd be slow?
It would be noticeable in many cases. It is these days quite usual to connect to sites at decent bandwidth, but with less than impressive latency, such as 300ms. Every FTP command requires a round-trip, and those add up fairly quickly. The current Wget sends at least seven commands before starting a download. In my case it means three seconds of chit-chat with the server before anything useful gets done. I'm not sure if the designers of HTTP intentionally reduced the number roundtrips in the protocol or if they just got lucky, but they did exactly the right thing.
