[rescue] sufreeware

[Kevin Loch]

Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know why sunfreeware has ftp gzip enabled?  From the
> > website,
> > netscape requests the uncompressed version of files, greatly increasing
> > consumed bandwidth and download time.  Why don't they just serve
> > the files via http for http clients?
> >
> 
> I personally don't trust HTTP downloads anyawy - I always log into the
> XMission ftp mirror (which is waaay faster, YMMV) and download manually.
> 

I agree, I usually do manual ftp downloads, but that doesn't mean the
main
server's bandwidth isn't getting smoked by an improperly configured ftp
server :)

KL