From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Jan 31 5:19:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from eng05.embratel.net.br (eng05.embratel.net.br [200.255.125.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF9A37B402 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:19:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from embratel.net.br (uni-eng.embratel.net.br [200.255.125.98]) by eng05.embratel.net.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F1A24D69; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:19:17 -0200 (BRST) Message-ID: <3C594455.109B0457@embratel.net.br> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:19:17 -0200 From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Organization: Internet via Embratel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Peter Pentchev , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.FreeBSD.org and ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org have 4.5-install.iso ready for download References: <20020130025115.GR9395@freebsdmall.com> <20020130103042.D81625@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <20020130115350.C4374@straylight.oblivion.bg> <200201302213.g0UMDda64354@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < 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. Do you mean limiting simultaneous conections? Jonny -- João Carlos Mendes Luís jonny@embratel.net.br Networking Engineer jonny@jonny.eng.br Internet via Embratel jcml@ieee.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message