- From: Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:04:15 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:05:55PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: > WebDAV is as fast as FTP, usually being only limited by bandwidth and > latency of the link. And of course there are lots of other reasons to > like WebDAV, such as that it *is* HTTP -- no new URI needed to edit > something that already is on the web. DAV is typically (really, always) *faster* than FTP, since it doesn't require the set up of a new TCP connection for each data transfer. Understanding the impact of separate DTP/control sockets answers the "Why not just improve FTP?" question for most people, I'd suspect. joe
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