On Thu, 18 Nov, 2004 at 10:33:38 -0600, Danny Sauer wrote: <snip>
How do you think all of the images on web pages are downloaded, let alone the other media files (pdf, flash, etc)?
http is a nice, simple protocol that also supports handy stuff like partial transfers and compression, among others (in 1.1 - 1.0 didn't have that stuff). FTP, while somewhat convenient in the use of a separate data and control channel (telnet's used on the control channel), is not at all simple from a network point of view.
Speaking of network POVs: Suppose I have a router doing priority queueing based on ToS flags (wondershaper). Am I understanding this correct, in that file transfers by way of http are going to end up in the same queue as the 'ordinary' webtraffic? And if so, then what might one do about it? Because it seems to me that clients using http for tranfers would then be 'jumping' the queue, so to speak, unless there is some pratical way to differentiate... TIA, Jon -- Just say "know!"