- From: Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Dec 94 09:01:25 -0500
- To: Chuck Shotton <cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
chuck- on sunsite, the volume of ftp requests was on a par with the number of http requests, and the average file size was larger- however, that isn't the point here. EOL translation in message bodies is handled for HTML by the SGML RE/RS mechanism, so the only real win would be for text/plain , so it's not really worth requiring such a major change. ch FTP efficincy for web use is more a factor of poor implementations than anything else- unless the control connection cache is enabled, libwww ftp really crawls. With the control connection cache turned on, ftp and http are much of a muchness. newline translation is usually not that significant over wide area networks ( especially if the ftpd has a decently tweaked newline scanner) Simon
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