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[Saliya Wimalaratne]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Frank O'Connor wrote:

> Mmmm,
> 
> Generally speaking HTTP is a faster data transfer protocol ... mainly 
> 'cos it uses UDP rather than TCP, and therefore doesn't have the 

?

not last time I checked :)

> error checking and many of the packeting and sizing overheads that 
> TCP uses.

Any medium that can transfer files in a binary format is preferable to
that of encoding binary files to travel over ASCII (which is what happens
to email attachments) as file size is typically increased by 30% or so
when doing this binary->ASCII encoding.

Regards,

Saliya