On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:44:55PM -0800, sand k wrote:
> I am comparing a http download with a download with
> curl. On right-clicking the hyperlink (via a web
> browser) for a file and then saving it on local drive,
> it takes 10 seconds. The same via curl is taking like
> 25 seconds or more (save it locally via the -o
> option). Is it fair to compare these two downloads for
> speed in this way ?

If this is a low bandwidth link, on-the-fly compression could easily make
this kind of difference on HTML pages. Are you giving the --compressed
option to curl?

>>> Dan

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