1 Oct
2012
1 Oct
'12
3:09 p.m.
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Mouse wrote:
HTTP is technically more efficient for such browsing (no overhead of
constant FTP connection setups and teardowns). Not everyone has FTP
support working through their home-gateway-router device either, although
IMO such devices /should/ be including full support for FTP.
(http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/). I
don't recall why I
initially started running it; the most plausible reason I can think of
offhand is to shut up people who were whining about having to
(horrors!) use something other than a Web browser to look at my stuff.
I've been using a web browser to transfer files from anonymous FTP sites
for years, as have many others. Why didn't they just use an ftp:// URL?