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> [appologies for the cross-post]
>
> Isn't it ironic that after 3 years of developing EDG for handling the
> distribution of large volumes of data the mechanism used to deploy the
> several gigs of LCG software is to "wget" the files using HTTP?
>
> Ian.
>
> [of course it is a bootstrapping problem, but it does feel as if things
> could have been improved if the file links were "ftp://..." instead of
> "http://..."]
>
IMHO ftp protocol has more security- and fireawall-related problems...
Btw. http is going to be used in grids even more often now (OGSA, WS-RF)
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