[LINK] wikipedia to beat porn

[Chris Maltby]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:58:42AM +1100, Adam Todd wrote:
> I fail to understand why people who run web sites insist on HTTP as the 
> primary file transfer mechanism when 99.9% of browsers have the ability to 
> FTP and it's far faster, etc.

The underlying speed is exactly the same, though FTP can be hard to
tunnel because it uses out-of-band signalling. I find fetching stuff
via HTTP is generally much quicker because most ISPs operate large
transparent HTTP proxy caches.

Chris