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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] hget
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:50:58 -0500
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rog@vitanuova.com wrote:

>i often do:
>
>	<hget someurl
>
>in acme (highlight, then middle-button click, to substitute the
>contents of the url); i realise now that this won't always work.
>  
>

it won't work if the connection gets halfway done, hangs up,
and the remote server doesn't support content-range requests.
but how often are you in this situation?