[H-GEN] Mozilla and Compress

[David Starkoff]

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At 2003-01-12T21:42-0500, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

> Length: unspecified [application/postscript]
> 
>     [                                <=>  ] 77,285         2.54K/s 
> 
> The progress bar above is a strange looking thing; the little
> spaceship moves left to right and back again; perhaps the file is
> being sent back to the browser by some strange method---streaming or
> something?  I don't know.

I seem to recall that the "strange little thing", as you so eloquently
describe that, uh, strange little thing, is what wget uses when it
doesn't know the size of what it's downloading.

Obviously, if wget doesn't know how large the file is, then it can't
show how far you've got left to go.

David.
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  "At least that's what we thought until we added the floppy hat of
   research to our flared pants-suit of investigation and discovered
   the classy look of truth."

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