[gopher] bandwidth overhead for gopher

[Kim Holviala]

> On 22 Jan 2015, at 7:51, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> 
> For large single prolonged transfers, such as big files, the proportion of
> headers to data is so small as to be negligible for especially big file sizes.

Also, HTTP can compress data on the fly resulting in much smaller transfer sizes than Gopher can ever do.

I wouldn’t use Gopher instead of HTTP just to save bytes. 


- Kim