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Re: another Web bitchout
From: sdw () lig net (Stephen D. Williams)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:48:47 +0000 (GMT)
Whatever brilliant boy first implemented file access via FTP in a web browser should be taken out and beaten soundly about the noggin with rolled-up RFCs. It maintains the one-connection-per-item paradigm, which is NOT the way FTP works, and everybody since then copied the method without THINKING first. Thus, if you're logging FTP connections, you get six times more NOISE than necessary when some point-and-click lamer wants ONE lousy file. Not to mention twice as much TCP setup overhead. How hard would it be, once a browser realizes that it's talking to an FTP server, to just keep the control socket open?! It's probably way too late to get it fixed by now, dammit. _H*
You should ALWAYS go through a caching proxy like cern_httpd. Not only does it cache data for repeated access, it caches connections to servers for ftp, http (I think), etc. sdw -- Stephen D. Williams 25Feb1965 VW,OH sdw () lig net http://www.lig.net/sdw Senior Consultant 513-865-9599 FAX/LIG 513.496.5223 OH Page BA Aug94-Feb95 OO R&D AI:NN/ES crypto By Buggy: 2464 Rosina Dr., Miamisburg, OH 45342-6430 Firewall/WWW srvrs ICBM/GPS: 39 38 34N 84 17 12W home, 37 58 41N 122 01 48W wrk Pres.: Concinnous Consulting,Inc.;SDW Systems;Local Internet Gateway Co.28Jan95
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