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Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?
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Jacob Poon |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx? |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:36:06 -0400 |
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, David Woolley wrote:
> It could be done, but it is not going to be a clean change, and, given that
> people have no problem downloading 9M files over modems in our office, you
> should be looking at why the connection is dropping, rather than recovery
> strategies.
I tried, but in my cases it is because of slow remote servers, especially
fortunecity. In other words, I can do very little about it.
> You might want to note that most cacheing proxies will complete a transfer,
> even if they lose the reader. It can even be worth starting a transfer,
> deliberately dropping the connection (preferably aborting rather than hanging
> up) and then coming back later, as you are likely to get a full speed
> download.
> (It's actually quite spectacular if the cache is ethernet connected, but good
> even over modems.) It is possible that some caches are byte range aware, but
> simply bypass the cache, so it is possible that a reload from the cache will
> be faster than an end to end restart.
No, that does not happen on my account.
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- LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jacob Poon, 1997/08/09
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, David Woolley, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Hynek Med, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, John, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Wayne Buttles, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Benjamin C. W. Sittler, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Wayne Buttles, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Klaus Weide, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jacob Poon, 1997/08/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, David Woolley, 1997/08/13
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?,
Jacob Poon <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, David Woolley, 1997/08/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jean-Pierre Radley, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Hynek Med, 1997/08/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jacob Poon, 1997/08/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Marc Slemko, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jacob Poon, 1997/08/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, David Woolley, 1997/08/13