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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.fido.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!diltd.demon.co.uk From: ric@diltd.demon.co.uk (Ric Harwood) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 19:46:09 GMT Organization: Discovery International Ltd Lines: 24 Message-ID: <835386370.22158.1@diltd.demon.co.uk> References: <31c2e7bd.14691630@news.demon.co.uk> <834878464snz@pair.com> <834921960snz@michaels.demon.co.uk> <835206024.5881.2@diltd.demon.co.uk> <bKyuJQj030n@sktb.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: ric@diltd.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: diltd.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: diltd.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 In demon.ip.support, "Paul L. Allen" <pla@sktb.demon.co.uk>, "Paul L. Allen" wrote: >It already is, if you but have the wits to use it. Tell your browser to use >Demon's proxy server. If the page is in the proxy server's cache, you will >get it quite quickly. If it isn't there, the proxy server will go and get >it. Now, here's the clever part: if it's taking too long to turn up, bugger >off and try again later, when it will be in the proxy server's cache waiting >for you... So once I have asked for it the proxy get's it even though I have have dropped the session, the soccet and the line? Funny, it didn't seem to work that way, but I admit that I wasn't watching for it in that way. Ric -- _____________________________________________________________ <irl://thereis.nothing.that.agood/days/surfing/can't/cure.exe> ______________________________________________________________ PGP: 0766ABE5 | Homepage http://area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk/~ric/