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socket. This provides ideal pipelining as in many cases all of the
requests will fit into a single packet. The input socket is buffered
the same way and fed into the fd for the file (may be a pipe in future).
-
- This double buffering provides fairly substantial transfer rates,
- compared to wget the http method is about 4% faster. Most importantly,
- when HTTP is compared with FTP as a protocol the speed difference is
- huge. In tests over the internet from two sites to llug (via ATM) this
- program got 230k/s sustained http transfer rates. FTP on the other
- hand topped out at 170k/s. That combined with the time to setup the
- FTP connection makes HTTP a vastly superior protocol.
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