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[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Mike A. Harris wrote:

> The ftp:// URL uses the FTP protocol, and the http:// URL uses 
> the HTTP protocol.  Additionally, the user roots of both of these 

This is the trivial part :-))

> are in separate locations, so a file appearing at an ftp:// URL
> will not be at an http:// URL because they are different 
> protocols with different storage locations on the hard disk
> arrays.  Some developers may or may not hardlink the files to
> make them available in both locations.  Personally, I favour ftp,

the question is: why are they different? if they are public servers :-?
why is closed http index and ftp is opened?.... X files, sources are
out there :-)

> as it works with commandline ncftp, etc. and I dislike using text 
> web browsers in place of commandline ftp clients...  ;o)

there is command line web clients like elinks, w3m...
I know that FTP was designed for file transfer but HTTP usually
is faster, for me.

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