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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">My recent Squeak work has done a lot of downloading via HTTP, hitting the swiki.gsug.org server. My impression is that HTTPSocket is not very robust for handling situations where it should retry a request; I routinely find that loading about a hundred URLs is enough to create an error within Squeak. In contrast, wget handles retries with no problem and downloads documents really fast from the GSUG website. Right now for the sake of not going crazy during development, I am using wget to update a local email .txt file repository and then loading from there.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Am I missing something? I'd really like my project ( the Bug Fixes Archive viewer ) to be able to update its list via HTTP, within Squeak. Would using Flow or the network rewrite that's on SqueakMap help me?</FONT></P>
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