Subj : Re: OT: Fidonet/BBS talk on 34c3
To   : NuSkooler
From : Vk3jed
Date : Fri Jan 12 2018 08:16 pm

-=> NuSkooler wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 Nu> FTP is a pretty horrid protocol. So bad that OS's have to have special
 Nu> hacks for a *layer 7 protocol* in their kernels.

 Nu> HTTP(S) supports continuation. I regularly downloads gigs and gigs over
 Nu> HTTP. Torrent is nice of course, if there are many good seeds. SCP
 Nu> isn't too bad.

Yeah, I have had HTTP transfers fail quite a lot, however.  Resume doesn't
always work, and when caching gets in the way it's a nightmare.  Failing HTTP
is a real pain.  Yeah SCP works well, and torrent is the best, wish more
download sites made use of it.  The fastest way for me to download things like
Likux distros. 


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