On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:23:33 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:26:02 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> <snip>
>> Now it seems that there must be a very good reason for resorting
>> to the recommended practice of cleaning out the cache often. I
>> have just now experienced a very good result from cleaning out
>> the cache, but I don't understand it.
> there is sometimes very funny behavior with full cache. I noticed that
> A. will stop d/ling images with some pages. Other pages cause infinite
> loops. All this stuff will disappear when cache is cleared. It would be
> interesting how many files have to be really in cache since the counter
> stops at 256.
In the particular case in point all of the images were downloaded
to cache, even though the cache was very large. The images would
all be displayed correctly in Arachne when viewed one by one as
individual files, but not when rendered in the web page.
> BTW, the following feature would be nice: When downloding a file from
> the web, could this "What to do with this stuff?" requester appear
> before d/ling any byte? Or, to have some kind of automatic, mime types
> mentioned in mime.cfg will be saved to cache and processed. All other
> files should go directly to download dir. This would save diskspace and
> time.
This kind of feature is incorporated into LYNX386, a DOS text browser.
No inline images are displayed along with the text; however, there is
a link to the image files. The user may click on the image link and
choose whether to download or view the image file. It would be very
nice to have a similar feature incorporated into Arachne for use when
surfing with images off.
Sam Heywood
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