[GRASSweb-list]http vs. ftp

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 01:38:30PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> On grass.mirrors.html perhaps the ftp links, e.g.
> ftp://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/pub/grass/
> should add index.html:
> ftp://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/pub/grass/index.html
> So users can get to the index right away.  Or maybe it's on purpose.

It's purpose, only then the users can see the files and their
sizes. For index.html we have the http links.
 
> Also mention "when does one want to use FTP vs. HTTP?"
What do you want to explain here?