On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:40:08PM +0200, Tuomas Lukinmaa wrote:
> Tyler Riddle wrote:
> 
> >It gives freenet one of my favorite
> >features: leave it alone for long enough and it will
> >do what you want even in the face of errors.
> 
> Even better would be to have FProxy continue requests on background and 
> return temporary 404 to the browser after some suitable timeout. That 
No such thing as a temporary 404.
> way users only need to wait and press reload to get another try on 
> loading the content versus having to think about HTL's, fill in forms 
> and restarting the content request. This would also fix the slow loading 
> of image heavy pages.
No it wouldn't. The only thing that would fix that would be to increase
the number of images the browser loads simultaneously, or some sort of
preload hints. The latter would be useful but need to be handled with
care to avoid DoS...

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