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 at krampe.se wrote:
> 
>>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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