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Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests


From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:17:38 -0400


On 21-Apr-2009, at 21:50, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:38PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:


FTP?  Who uses FTP these days?  Certainly not consumers.  Even Cisco
pushes almost everything via a webserver. (they still have ftp servers,
they just don't put much on them these days.)

        well, pretty much anyone who has large datasets to move around.
        that default 64k buffer in the openssl libs pretty much sucks
        rocks for large data flows.

So you're saying FTP with no SSL is better than HTTP with no SSL?


Joe



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