DFS wrote: >> Is VB using a local web cache, and Python not? > > I'm not specifying a local web cache with either (wouldn't know how or > where to look). If you have Windows, you can try it.
I don't have Windows, but if I'm to believe http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5235464/how-to-make-microsoft-xmlhttprequest-honor-cache-control-directive the page is indeed cached and you can disable caching with > Option Explicit > Dim xmlHTTP, fso, fOut, startTime, endTime, webpage, webfile,i > webpage = "http://econpy.pythonanywhere.com/ex/001.html" > webfile = "D:\econpy001.html" > startTime = Timer > For i = 1 to 10 > Set xmlHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP") > xmlHTTP.Open "GET", webpage xmlHTTP.setRequestHeader "Cache-Control", "max-age=0" > xmlHTTP.Send > Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") > Set fOut = fso.CreateTextFile(webfile, True) > fOut.WriteLine xmlHTTP.ResponseText > fOut.Close > Set fOut = Nothing > Set fso = Nothing > Set xmlHTTP = Nothing > Next > endTime = Timer > wscript.echo "Finished VBScript in " & FormatNumber(endTime - > startTime,3) & " seconds" > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > save it to a .vbs file and run it like this: > $cscript /nologo filename.vbs > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list