This is probably better anyways - first, HTTP typically goes through firewalls (FTP often doesn't, such as where I am right now) and second you're sparing people immense griefs if they happen to use an inferior browser (e.g., IE) which depending on your FTP server often just chokes and gives weird error messages. So I think we should use the HTTP download as the "primary" location and for people who ... well I don't know why but hey ... for people who for some reason want to use ftp they can still use ftp.

Cheers, - Andreas

Ken Causey wrote:

FTP accesses were choking the server and on watching some detailed logs I decided that the bulk of the problem was web browsers that don't quit after finishing their downloads. In the interest of keeping things going until we move to the new full server I've modified the 'old' site so that all download URLs using http://ftp.squeak.org/ instead. I hope that is OK with everyone.

Ken

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:07 +0200, goran@krampe.se wrote:

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Hi folks!

Ok, the idea is that the *primary* URLs for downloading Squeak are now:

ftp://ftp.squeak.org http://ftp.squeak.org (added that this morning)

...we should of course update Swiki and every other place we can think of. I will be updating the current www.squeak.org download page to this effect (small adjustment).

Again, if anyone wants to mirror this area, see:

http://ftp.squeak.org/MIRRORING.txt

regards, Gran

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On 6/30/05, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:

So I think we should use the HTTP download as the "primary" location and for people who ... well I don't know why but hey ... for people who for some reason want to use ftp they can still use ftp.

I can think of only one reason, mirroring - that might work better with FTP. Apart from that...