$ time for i in `seq 1 100`; do curl -s "gopher://codevoid.de/0/tw.txt" > /dev/null; done 0m09.40s real 0m00.03s user 0m00.08s system ~ $ time for i in `seq 1 100`; do curl -s "https://codevoid.de/tw.txt" > /dev/null; done 0m46.52s real 0m00.09s user 0m00.09s system