Re: bandwidth considerations of ftp vs http

Simon E Spero (ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu)
Thu, 15 Sep 1994 02:09:29 +0200

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Not really. FTP sets up a control connection, then starts a new virtual
circuit for each file. Once file transfer is in progress, both FTP and HTTP
should have identical performance characteristics (providing that neither is
doing any presentation transformation such as FTP's ascii mode)

Simon

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