Re: client-server

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I would just like to remind you that a server needs to be more
>> powerful than a client
>
>   I disagree.  Please explain.

Indeed.

A graphical FTP client is liable to involve 10x as much code as is
needed to comprise an FTP server, and it is quite likely to chew
memory with comparable ferocity.

And I doubt that even text-based HTTP clients are smaller than a
spartan HTTP server like Boa.

That being said, it is common for servers to accept a lot of
connections, so they are likely to be heavily outnumbered, and thus
need to be rather powerful :-).
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