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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:46:11 PDT
From:	Benedict G Archer <bgarcher@gte.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: web pages never load

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Superslurp may get past whatever the problem is, but I'd rather filter
out the adds. Maybe I'll try the "real man's" text only browser that
Dallas uses? Tom Watson mentioned it in his notes. I'd really like to
not see the ads. But it would be nice to understand what's going
on--your experiments may be illuminating.

Ben

Peter Skye wrote:
>
> Benedict G Archer wrote:
> >
> > I have noticed sometimes. when I've given up, that there's
> > another page with an ad underneath the page I'm waiting for.
>
> I just ran wget on http://www.motherboards.org/ to see if it came in
> okay, and it did -- and quite rapidly too. I stored the page in my
> temp\ directory and then opened the stored page in Netscape, and the
> page opened quickly but the resulting calls back to the Internet for all
> the other "stuff" that the page needed caused it to hang up. (Netscape
> didn't hang up, just the motherboards.org page.) Some of the stuff
> completed (the banner ad, for example, which appeared to be running a
> Java applet) and some of it didn't.
>
> Later I'll try it with SuperSlurp. Both wget and SuperSlurp can get the
> additional page items (graphics, applets, whatever) but for http stuff I
> prefer SuperSlurp.
>
> - Peter

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