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From: andy@gently.demon.co.uk (Andy Hawkins)
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: 29 Jun 1996 09:32:11 GMT
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In article <31D42221.58C3@www.play-hookey.com>,
Ken Bigelow<kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote:
>The problem with that idea is that a Web page is not a single file. The
>main HTML document is (usually) not that big, and consists entirely of
>ASCII text.
That's not the point (AIUI). This service would be useful for places that
only offer binaries on web pages, not on an ftp server. In general, the
delay waiting for a page to load is not to bad, but when you're trying to
download a 2Mb zip file that isn't on an ftp server at 200 bytes/sec, then
you could be there a while.
If you could request this using some batch http service then you wouldn't
have to sit online waiting.
Of course, once it's there there would be no reason why it couldn't also be
used to download single pages, but what would be the point??
Andy
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