- From: François-Louis Mommens <mommens@echo.fr>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:28:57 +0200
- To: "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <frystyk@w3.org>, <www-lib@w3.org>
I need to stop the transfert even if it close the TCP connection. I can't download more than a certain size for I won't save the whole document and it would take bandwidth uselessly. > -----Message d'origine----- > De: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen [mailto:frystyk@w3.org] > Date: vendredi 9 juillet 1999 15:45 > À: François-Louis Mommens; Vladimir Kozlov; www-lib@w3.org > Objet: RE: fast robot > > > At 15:22 10/07/1999 +0200, François-Louis Mommens wrote: > >Thanks for your response but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. > > > >In fact, I'm working on a search engine project and I only need > the begining > >of web pages cause I can't keep the totality. > > > >This method of ranges work only with a few amount of web servers. What I > >realy need is to stop the transfer of data anyway. > > That may in fact be much more expensive as this requires that you > close the > TCP connection and have to get a new TCP connection up and running. What > you may want to do is to try and see if the server understands range > requests and if so then use that, otherwise use HEAD requests. > > Henrik > -- > Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, > World Wide Web Consortium > http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk >
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