Re: nastygram from xxx.lanl.gov

Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com)
Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:16:29 -0600 (MDT)


>The URL's at that site come back in well under a fraction of a second (there
>is a typical one below). Are you saying that not only does the http server
>send you a document, in then, after the document is sent, launches some
>kind of job that then sits spinning in the background for two minutes?

Not all of them, but a dumb robot can't tell the difference either.
Some URLs do come back instantly but run very long processes on multiple
machines.

rob