Re:BitTorrent vs. HTTP
by shakna on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:37AM
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HTTP tends to be faster for what we use the web for: [0]
FTP does have some advantages, but HTTP has more advanced support for resuming connections, virtual hosting, better compression, and persistent connections, to name a few.
FTP does have some advantages, but HTTP has more advanced support for resuming connections, virtual hosting, better compression, and persistent connections, to name a few.
[0] https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/ftp-vs-http.html