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[evraire AT tuwg.com]

Hello,

Andrew said:
> Assuming we're talking about the case of wget-able files, we actually do
> a lookup first (see url_foo_verify) although I question the necessity
> of it, theres really very little difference between checking if a file
> is there and actually downloading it, its kinda silly to connect and
> see if something is there, disconnect and reconnect again.

  I agree: there's really no point.


> I have the same sentiment about the whole FUZZ feature, where we try to
> poke around for alternate extensions to the file (Seth has been lobbying
> for its removal for a while now).

  I think the idea is cool in theory, but in practice I doubt this is ever 
really used.  Anybody have any kind of clue how often this gets used?

  Jonathan Evraire
  evraire at tuwg.com


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