lynx-dev Re: -dump etc

[HenSiong Tan]

Dear Klaus and all,

Your prognosis looks right ... it is difficult to imagine 
otherwise.

Anyhow, please allow me to take this opportunity to thank 
everyone for contributing to making lynx into such a great 
piece of work!  Thank you!

Regards,
HenSiong



 :> From: Klaus Weide <address@hidden>

 :> >> Hello Tom, 

 :> >> If you have time, would you take look at this: how is it possible that 
 :> >> doing this 

 :> >>    lynx -nolist -dump http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/odb/odb.shtml 

 :> >> a number of times (about a second+ in between) download different days'  
 :> >> pages (yesterday's and today's)?  I discovered this accidently when  
 :> >> this cron job starts displaying previous day's message---even though  
 :> >> the page at the site has already been updated.  (Thus viewing the page  
 :> >> directly with lynx is different from what the dump above gets.  Another  
 :> >> example is http://www.gospelcom.net/ itself.) 

 :> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 address@hidden wrote:
 :> > you probably are getting some server's cached copy of the page (but I
 :> > don't know why the dump and interactive copies would be different).

 :> It seems the site was broken for a while (parts of the page changed
 :> [randomly?] after each RELOAD), but now it seems fixed.

 :>    Klaus