Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Ralph Shumaker wrote: >> Way back when I was running whendoze (around 10 years ago), I had a >> shareware program called File Hound. One of the many features that I >> liked about that program is that if I had it running while browsing >> the internet, and I right click on something and choose "copy link >> location", File Hound would take it from there and fetch the object of >> that link, in the background, while I continued surfing. It even >> cached subsequent links and got to them as soon as it could. > > IIRC, FasterFox had an "aggressive" setting that would do this. > > This kind of aggressive prefetching is frowned upon for a couple of > reasons. The primary one is that it consumes a lot of server bandwidth > that the user quite often doesn't follow up. Basically, if everybody > starts prefetching, your bandwidth goes up 10x with no increase in > anything else which would help you pay for it. > > Some sites started monitoring it and would actually block your IP for a > few minutes if they detected you doing it. >
The wget man page talks about that too, under the "--random-wait" option. Regards, ..jim (SJS knew of it, of course) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
