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From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 96 14:46:32 GMT
Organization: City Zen FM
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Message-ID: <836318792snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <836073421snz@dsl.co.uk> <31D87436.7C7F@www.play-hookey.com>
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In article <31D87436.7C7F@www.play-hookey.com>
kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com "Ken Bigelow" writes:
> I've been having an e-mail discussion of this with Ian Stirling, who is
> connected to Demon. We've batted it back and forth a number of times, and I
> still don't see any real solution to the problem in the UK, as long as you are
> stuck, for whatever reason, with those s-l-o-w links. I mean no offense, but
> 200 bytes/sec *stinks!* It's a wonder you can do anything useful at all on
> that basis.
And for that reason, I don't think it would be unreasonable for demon to
provide an extention to the batch ftp which would get files via http. This
would *not* de designed for getting sets of Web pages, but for getting the
large files some people make available only via http.
Thinking about it though, being able to grab a web page, and have the program
scan the page for inline images and get those too would be nice; but you
could do this yourself with the limited service I outlined above.
Only a SMoP, after all ;-)
.splitbung
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