31 Aug
2000
31 Aug
'00
9:36 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:22:52AM -0500, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
But, you get the added benefit of MIME typing, human-beneficial markup, caching if you have a nearby cache, inherent firewall friendliness (no data connection foolishness), and simple negotiation of encrypted transfers (SSL). And for command-line people like myself, there's lynx, w3m, and wget.
And you lose the benefit of client-side choice as to binary or ascii transfer mode. Not that this isn't outweighed by all the things you gain, in most cases.