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
Yes. Since the advent of https and range transfers and MD5-digest
authentication in HTTP 1.1, HTTP is now my preferred protocol for large
file transfers. Being firewall-friendly and stateless is an added bonus.
-- Neil