Merlin wrote:
I am having serious trouble in updating the curl sw for my running system. That is not as trivial as it seams. That said, I have read that many people do have the same problem in downloading the larger files. Is there are reason not to place the files on an ftp server? That seams to be the apropriate protocol for file transfers. Why http? I can not see a reason, but I might lack technical knowledge for this. Can somebody shed some light on this?
Just because it's called "File Transfer Protocol", doesn't mean you shouldn't transfer files with anything else.
In fact, I prefer HTTP because it uses ONE connection only. FTP uses two.
Of course, this fact shouldn't really make any difference to you. Whether you use FTP or HTTP doesn't make the transfers any faster. Nor does it make curl (or any other download tool) work any better or worse.
Greetings, Timwi