Return to BSD News archive
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!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.cais.net!xara.net!agate.xara.net!zynet.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!sktb.demon.co.uk
From: "Paul L. Allen" <pla@sktb.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:39:49 +0100
Organization: Chaos
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <bKyuJQj030n@sktb.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>
Reply-To: pla@sktb.demon.co.uk
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: sktb.demon.co.uk
X-Newsreader: Archimedes ReadNews
X-Mail2News-Path: disperse.demon.co.uk!sktb.demon.co.uk
In article <835206024.5881.2@diltd.demon.co.uk>
ric@diltd.demon.co.uk (Ric Harwood) writes:
> In demon.ip.support, Michael Salem <michaels@michaels.demon.co.uk>,
> Michael Salem wrote:
>
> >Regarding slow downloading from ftp and web sites:
> >Batch ftp gets round slow ftp file transfers.
> >When is batch www downloading due to be implemented?
>
> Is it 'due to be implemented'? And/or does anyone know where I could
> find a program, [preferably source], that could run this?
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...
--Paul