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From: Paul Terry <paul@musonix.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 23:12:03 +0100
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In article <bKyuJQj030n@sktb.demon.co.uk>, "Paul L. Allen"
<pla@sktb.demon.co.uk> writes

>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...
>
>--Paul
>
Mmmm ... I don't know the technicalities of Demon's WWW cache, but my
own experience is that this works only very rarely. Applying a little
non-technical logic, I wonder if you found this worked simply because in
the interim (while you were "buggering off") someone else successfully
downloaded the file you were after, thus leaving it sitting pretty in
the cache?
-- 
Paul Terry (Email: paul@musonix.demon.co.uk)