>HTTP relies on its standard thus you can't add specific FTP commands in the URL such as passing the username and the password. This is one difference.
Thanks. Actually, I meant advantages for the end-user - that is me - if the server (e.g.,
www.OpenOffice.org) supplies both options. Do you think FTP would result in a faster download?
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
