On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:48:28PM +0100, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > When mirroring http:// url, lftp sends HEAD command: > ---> HEAD /anime/manga/Love%20Hina/lh02-016e.jpg HTTP/1.1 > > I'm not sure if this is really needed. It must know already which files > are avaiable, so it could just use GET or whatever to download files.
mirror tries to get file information first to determine if it was changed. > With many files it's making downloading very slow :( lftp can pipeline HEAD requests if server supports HTTP/1.1. -- Alexander.
