[ENH] scampMultiImage
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Nov 6 18:09:19 UTC 2001
> *ethics note: by doing this I realize I am bypassing the comics
> creators' pages and costing them advertising revenue. But I tried to
> go to, say, the Dilbert home page in Scamper and it brought Scamper
> to its knees, all that incredibly gratuitous layout and excess crap!
> I consider the tiny loss of ad hits engendered by this tool to be an
> unfortunate consequence of the syndicates making pages that are too
> hideously complex to be reasonably viewable in Scamper. :)
>
It works fine for me, although note that Scamper is doing the (normally)
nice thing of downloading one image at a time, so it can take a while
until the comic loads.
I'll attach a simple patch to make it download a few images at once,
which seems to get you to the comic faster. :) Another nice trick is
to avoid downloading identical images multiple times, but that's
trickier. The best system would probably be to have a global download
manager for HTTP stuff; this would move all the trickiness into one
place, and that one place would have all the information it needs easily
available.
-Lex
from preamble:
"Change Set: scampMultiImage
Date: 6 November 2001
Author: Lex Spoon
Download multiple images simultaneously, to help with sites that have
zillions of pictures on them."!
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