[Coco] Re: ftp.maltedmedia

[Roger Taylor]

At 09:29 AM 11/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>I didn't say that FTP is passe; I was just saying that it is becoming 
>passe. Perhaps most download sites are FTP now, but don't expect that to 
>be the case in a few years.  Many companies are now phasing out FTP sites 
>in favor of using HTTP more and more for a number of reasons, including 
>maintainability (why maintain two sites when you can just use one site), 
>security (there is no "ftps") and and ease of use.  HTTP is more proxy 
>friendly, for example.  Don't get me wrong, I still agree that FTP will be 
>around for a long time.


FTP also transfers faster than HTTP.  Try downloading a 2-meg or so file 
using both connections if possible, using a slow dial-up connection, and 
compare the two.