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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.ktgroup.co.uk!mike From: mike@lurch.ktgroup.co.uk (Mike Pellatt) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 22 Jun 1996 12:45:30 GMT Organization: Knowledge Technology Group Lines: 29 Message-ID: <slrn4snqn3.dmo.mike@lurch.ktgroup.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> <835386370.22158.1@diltd.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lurch.ktgroup.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: www.ktgroup.co.uk X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.6.1) On Fri, 21 Jun 1996 19:46:09 GMT, Ric Harwood <ric@diltd.demon.co.uk> wrote: >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. Certainly the Harvest cache works that way. Demon ran Harvest for a (short) while, but seem to have reverted to the CERN caching server. Dunno why - I know CERN is slower, but I beleieve there are some stability porblems with Harvest under heavy load. I don't know if CERN behaves that way - it's process model is very different from Harvest. -- Mike Pellatt, VCS Limited (A Knowledge Group company) Tel: (+44) 117 9007500 Fax: (+44) 117 9007501 Mobile: (+44) 468 192021 Home Page: http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/~mike/