On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > A 'slow' or 'modem' option to Queue-Mode would be great for dialout > access to limit the number of connection made over the modem. In > 'modem' mode only one connection of either http or ftp URI type would > be made at a time while other local URI types of cdrom, file & copy are > made simultaneously. Currently if I want to limit the number of > simultaneous connection over the modem I have to use the 'access' > method and have all non-local URI types be of the same type. This is > not always possible since not all mirrors have both ftp and http.
There is actually a complicated reason why it is like this. You see each download process gets its own URL queue and http/ftp have different download processes. It is difficult to serialize them as a single queue. So this is very, very, very low priority Jason
