It's about the performance of the Board and not about the physical data transportation. I want to skip the iterpreter in HTTP.
I measured the duration of 500 status commands with Telnet and HTTP, 20 times each.
The mean results are
HTTP: 176 ms (Min.: 177, Max.: 205)
Telnet: 154 ms (Min.: 158, Max.: 178)
The difference is less than I expected.
For me, the topic is settled. Thank you for the quick answeres.