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<<On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:53:51 +0200, Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> said:

> if only because I am not yet completely sure if HTTP can really transfer
> binary data without any kind of encoding, which usually adds up to
> significant bloating of the download size.

It certainly can.

The only place where Web servers are really lacking is in the area of
anonymous user management.  I would happily get rid of all of the FTP
servers I run if Web servers could do that well.

-GAWollman


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