Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: albods | Date | Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:54:11 -0700 | From | Craig Milo Rogers <> |
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>On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 09:29:34AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote: >> When creating the file, make it huge, but filled with holes. > >What if you transfer such a file via ftp (or any non-compressing >protocol that doesn't know about holes)? You will generate traffic >for all the huge holes...
Actually, the Internet FTP protocol has a feature, called "Page Structure" mode, that's specifically intended to deal with holey files. See RFC 959, section 3.1.2.3.
Whether anyone actually implements it nowadays is a different question...
Craig Milo Rogers
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