Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?

[David Woolley]

> 
> > You might want to note that most cacheing proxies will complete a transfer,
> 
> No, that does not happen on my account.

If you are using Lynx over a shell account, and your ISP is not using a
cacheing server locally, but is poorly connected, that is your real 
problem, and theirs.  Running a cacheing server is almost certainly
going to speed up accesses for everyone!  At the very least, it will
allow connections to complete in the background, but, if they have the
typical mix of people wanting information off microsoft.com and the latest
entertainment industry sites, it may well change their internet access
link from a heavily overloaded one to one with plenty of spare capacity!

If you are running Lynx locally, over PPP, you should first make sure that
the service provider doesn't already have a cacheing server which just needs
confguring into Lynx.  Failing that, you should encourage them to set one
up, or, at least, try to find one of their providers, going towards the
"backbone" that does - you really need the cache on your side of the
bottleneck, though.

I think the current cacheing server of choice for Unix ISPs is squid.
There is also the CERN server (strictly W3C these days) which is a
distant relative of Lynx itself, and is a fully fledged web server, not just
a cache.  Both of these are free software. Microsoft do a commercial product,
for NT, although it is aimed more at the corporate site firewall market.

Generally, though, you need to talk to your ISP.
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