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Re: DNS caching; is it *truly* possible to flush locally?

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From: John Washington
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 00:00
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     <Snews.960811.131237.chris.1050@keris.demon.co.uk>
     chris@keris.demon.co.uk "Chris Croughton" wrote:

CC> Oh, another suggestion for additions to KA9Q - how about an HTTP
CC> interface?  Nothing like a full browser, basically all I want it to do
CC> is take the URL and download what's at the other end so I can look at it

Oops, I guess you don't take dis.pc.  I guess I should have
x-posted here, but there's far too much x-posting on Usenet and
I try to hold off unless it's really needed.

How would a ka9q task less than 2K, handling commands like
'http //www.keris.demon.co.uk/humongous.zip 5mb.zip' grab
you?

..
CC> Minuet, which is slow and likely to crash a KA9Q session (I often forget

Ah, well, mine might be compatible in those respects too.

..
CC> On a similar subject, does anyone have any freely distributable code (in
CC> C / C++) for HTTP?  The RFC on it isn't the clearest I've seen...

2nded.  And is there a full list of docs around?  I've seen the
1.0 spec dated 93, but there must be a 1.1 spec somewhere?

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John Washington
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Subject: Re: DNS caching; is it *truly* possible to flush locally?
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