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Lothar Kimmeringer
Roedy said:I think the problem is there are delays where nothing is being
transmitted. I know this from observation, not from analysis of the
protocol.
This is a bit dependent on the network-connection because every
file-transfer needs the establishment of a new network-connection
(a new data-channel). So if you have many many small files, WEBDAV
using HTTP/1.1 and keep-alive connections can gain advantage over
FTP because the time it needs to establish a new connection might
take longer than the time to transfer the "huge" amount of data
the HTTP-request and -response-header consist of.
SFTP can be a good alternative because it's using the established
SSH-connection and just opens another "logical" connection (called
channel) to transfer the file. The SSH-protocol also supports
compression (but needs to be activated explicitly sometimes).
Regards, Lothar
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