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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!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!news.fido.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!gw6hva.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: martin@gw6hva.demon.co.uk (Martin Vernon) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 27 Jun 1996 07:09:32 GMT Organization: Supavision Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4qtc3c$4st@news.gb7osp> References: <31c2e7bd.14691630@news.demon.co.uk> <834878464snz@pair.com> <834921960snz@michaels.demon.co.uk> <835206024.5881.2@diltd.demon.co.uk> <slrn4sgtd6.ds.dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> <835294223.22071.1@diltd.demon.co.uk> <slrn4sjj16.cs.dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> <199606261821.SAA02204@mauve.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.gb7osp.ampr.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: gw6hva.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Ian Stirling (root@mauve.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > Or makes it possible to get at all, site in US, wanted to download a 1.7Mb > PDF file, took 1 min to download 20K, and died between 20 and 40K most > times, Assuming a possibility of 1/2 that it'll fall over at 30K, > it'd likely take 2^60 attempts or so, about 10^20 attempts, which at > 1000 attempts a day would take rather longer to download than my phone budget > allows :) > A www-server that could do reget, or restart or whatever would > be very usefull, can such a thing exist? You may if you're lucky, find that you can get access to some files like this via FTP as well, which then lets you fire off a batch FTP request at Demon. I know and share your frustrations and often end up myself throwing regular, even flood pings at the remote site to keep it alive, not the most sociable activity but when I want a file desparately.... -- Martin Vernon, Sysop GB7OS/GB7OSP, Chairman GCPG, IP Co-ordinator N. Wales GW6HVA@GB7OSP, gw6hva@gb7osp.ampr.org, e-mail: martin@gw6hva.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 589 900 564 Data: GB7OSP V32.bis, 8N1, ANSI +44 1492 872 467