Re: Netscape Communicator 4.x undocumented feature?

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@daldata.no>]

> I've noticed something interesting in COmmunicator 4.x for Linux: 
> Whenever I do download in Netscape, and my ppp link dies in the middle of
> it, the download does not break. It just sits there, stalled. Resuming
> connection to my ISP resumes the download. No need for any special tools
> to put files together from pieces, nothing.
This is not a netscape special - it applies to anything.  A
ppp problem *is* just a delay.  Programs can decide to time out
or keep waiting, but there is no way they can know wheter it
is a slow server or a temporary hung-up phone line. 
This is how networking in unix work - and it's nice. :-)

> Doesnt happen in Windows, though.  Undocumented feature? Just programmer
> being nice to us, Linux folks? Boneheaded mistake?
Yet another case of bad implementation in windows.

Helge Hafting