[rescue] sufreeware

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Tue Feb 19 11:56:19 CST 2002


> 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.



Kurt



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