Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:47:11 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Riley Williams <> | | Subject | Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source documentA |
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Hi Olaf.
>> In many cases, the standard protocols aren't optimal. E.g., if >> one were designing the web from scratch, one could do a lot better >> than HTTP.
> Most older protocols are even less optimal (I have in mind RFC 822 > and FTP as the worst offenders), but everyone keeps using them. The > only protocol that ever has successfully been abandoned since the > introduction of TCP was Gopher.
Nodz...
> Even HTTP/1.0 can do everything that FTP does and can do it better > (much easier to implement in certain regards), but this hasn't > stopped FTP from being used.
One thing http/1.0 certainly does better than ftp is to freeze and drop a link in mid transfer - something that happens with such monotonous regularity for me that I've stopped even considering using http for file transfers...
Best wishes from Riley.
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