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On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 08:36:15AM -0400, Tom St Denis wrote: |
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> > How is this method faster or in any way better than rsync? |
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> Less metadata? If I want to download 1000 files off your site I have to say |
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> +GET /file1 |
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> - -HTTP/1.1 200 OK |
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> ... data |
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> +GET /file2 |
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> - -HTTP/1.1 200 OK |
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> ... data |
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> +GET /file3 |
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> - -HTTP/1.1 200 OK |
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> ... data |
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> ETC |
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Hmm... it looks like you need to do a little research into how rsync |
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transfers files. It's much more efficient than what you're thinking. |
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And it certainly doesn't use HTTP. |
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- O |
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