On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:17:38AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
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> On 21-Apr-2009, at 21:50, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
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> >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
>
(see me LEAPING to conclusions....)
yes. (although I was actually thinking http w/ SSL vs FTP w/o SSL)
a really good review of the options was presented at the DoE/JT meeting
at UNL last summer. Basically, tuned FTP w/ large window support is
still king for pushing large datasets around.
--bill
