Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:53:51 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> Cc: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.FreeBSD.org and ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org have 4.5-install.iso ready for download Message-ID: <20020130115350.C4374@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20020130103042.D81625@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; from dl@leo.org on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:30:42AM %2B0100 References: <20020130025115.GR9395@freebsdmall.com> <Pine.OSF.4.20.0201301331060.1961-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> <20020130103042.D81625@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:30:42AM +0100, Daniel Lang wrote: > Hi Jason, > > jason andrade wrote on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:33:39PM +1000: > [..] > > ftp.au.freebsd.org (aka planetmirror.com) has all 5 ISO images now > > as well as the release tree and the packages-4.5-release tree. if you're > > listing us, can you please add both http and ftp, as we prefer users > > to download via http where possible. > Out of curiosity, why? I always thought thats abuse of HTTP, since > it was not designed for that purpose, and it also lacks the > ability of 'regetting' a file, that was not transferred > completely. Or am I wrong here? You are, just as I was :) This was one of the arguments I used a couple of months ago to furiously argue against my boss's use of HTTP for downloading files, whereupon he smugly pointed me to the HTTP Range header, which allows a specification of the type 'Range: bytes 110-' meaning 'byte 110 till EOF'. This is actually used in the fetch(1) -R code :) Still, I personally prefer - and advocate - use of FTP for file transfers, 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. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence contains exactly threee erors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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