From: Robert Masters (rdm_at_enfield.lympago.com)
Date: Sat Jun 12 2004 - 08:29:24 PDT
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:03:01AM -0400, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> Grant Hutchinson wrote:
> > Crap! That's so cool, Victor.
> >
> > The nice thing about being able to enter a URL is that you can simply
> > point at a text file on the Project gutenberg servers, like:
> >
> > http://www.gutenberg.net/etext97/thott10.txt
>
> Yep. That's the point. It will check every URL to make sure it is
> downloading a plain-text file though.
That said, it would also be *very* cool if it could pre-filter certain
common compression formats (eg ZIP and GZIP) on the way through.
Especially as many sites store such files as compressed text to save
bandwidth.
Very good work, Victor!
-R.
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