FTP protocol for APT instead of HTTP
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FTP is the really protocol for the file transfers, and it is better than HTTP because it takes advantage of better the bandwidth than HTTP.
Mandriva Linux uses it already.
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- Status:
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- Priority:
- Undefined
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- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Claudio
- Definition:
- New
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2009-02-25 cjwatson: Don't be misled by the name. HTTP is actually a much better file transfer protocol than FTP! For example, FTP has no support for pipelining, which makes an enormous difference over links with a high round-trip time. APT actually already supports FTP, but we don't use it by default because it would be *worse* than the current situation, not better.
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