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. -- Jim Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone 415 / 570 3608 _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
