On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lemon Obrien wrote:

> I agree with many on this list about the use of HTTP to transfer
> files...I really don't get why people think bitTorrent is special; and
> I'm even more confussed considering HTTP is Text based and to transfer
> data you have to convert it to base64 and back again. HTTP was meant to
> transfer HTML...its that simple. People are klugding HTTP b/c they 1.

HTTP is routinely used to transfer binary data.  See RFC 2616,
specifically section 14.13 on the use of the Content-Length header.

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