[rescue] sufreeware
Kurt Huhn
kurt at k-huhn.com
Tue Feb 19 11:56:19 CST 2002
> Does anyone know why sunfreeware has ftp gzip enabled? From the
> website,
> netscape requests the uncompressed version of files, greatly increasing
> consumed bandwidth and download time. Why don't they just serve
> the files via http for http clients?
>
I personally don't trust HTTP downloads anyawy - I always log into the
XMission ftp mirror (which is waaay faster, YMMV) and download manually.
Kurt
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