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Re: [LUG] Why HTTP transfer quicker than FTP?
> So why would an HTTP transfer be much faster than the old FTP? Whilst I
> admit that both the FTP server and web server may not be running on the same
> machine, there surely shouldn't be such a large difference in transfer rates.
Hmm - well details of protocols aside - do you have an http cache
configured and not an ftp cache.... Maybe there is another Linux'er
lurking on your cache.
Otherwise I think the possibilities are endless - from traffic shapers
preferring http to ftp - to different boxes using dodgy NFS
configurations at the far end.
Simon
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