Ausum wrote:
These are times of single file uploads, from the local file system:
A tiff file of 4.7 MB: Using the management interface: 2'10" Using FTP: 25 seconds
A jpeg of 478Kb: MI: 14 seconds FTP: 3 1/2 seconds
An mp3 of 3.6MB: MI: 1'40" FTP: 17 seconds
Why is this happening? Times were measured from pushing the required button until the page response (in the case of the MI), and until the "transfer complete" message in FTP. The test box was a Pentium 200 running Windows 2000, Zope 2.5b4, IE 5.5, and WS_FTP95.
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Is it known that FTP is faster even for single uploads? If so, why does it have to be that way?
Hmm, I don't know why the difference is that large, but one factor for sure is that the browser upload is using base64 encoding, which enlarges the data by a factor of up to 40% IIRC. cheers, oliver