Re: incorrect download urls

Sam Hocevar <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:11:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.videolan.vlcs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002, tom haberfellner wrote:

> plz correct the download urls given on your hp
> [eg 
> <ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.4.6/macosx/vlc-0.4.6.dmg> 
> instead of 
> <http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.4.6/macosx/vlc-0.4.6.dmg>, 
> as of 02.12.2002]

   We prefer to serve files over HTTP rather than FTP because it uses
slightly less bandwidth, and lets us easily gather download statistics.

   You may be suggesting this change because you experienced trouble
downloading vlc, but that was only a glitch that appeared this night
on the web server. It should be fixed now.

Regards,
-- 
Sam.
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