Allegedly, on or about 26 July 2017, Samuel Sieb sent: > This email came to me directly, I'm assuming by accident, since your > signature indicates that I can't reply directly. Sorry about that, it was meant to go back to the list. I've been trying out Mozilla on a Mac, can't say that I like the experience, and must have got caught out by its ignorance of obeying the reply-to header. Tim: >> I'm not using the latest version, but every now and then there would be >> one that would fail, mostly it was down to the HTTPS encryption (normal >> clips that would play through the browser without special requirements). >> Though, sometimes issuing the command several times, it would work. > I have seen that occasionally. I'm guessing that it hit a bad server or > a bad connection somehow and retrying it works. I wonder if they do random round-robins, to let different servers handle *each* request. I'd often used youtube-dl to deal with slow connections, where things would keep on timing out when you were trying to watch something in the web browser. The stutters and hiccups can be very annoying. Naturally, it'd be the things you're most interested in being able to watch easily that be the hardest to download. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 (always current details of the computer that I'm writing this email on) Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
