[COLUG] Satellite Web Proxy

[Matthew Gardlik]

I think it might be possible to write a shell script or small program to 
use wget on your hosting machine to download all the part of a webpage, 
and then create a tarball of those files.  Then you could just download 
the one tarball, extract the tarball, and view the page.

It doesn't seem like the seamless solution you may be looking for though.

Matt

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> I use a satellite ISP (Hughes Net). DSL and cable are unavailable.
> 
> One of the problems I have is that due to the time it takes the signal
> to get to and from the satellite, sometimes relatively small web pages
> take a long time to load.  Here's what I think is going on.
> 
> A trip from my computer to the Hughes Net earth station takes about 1/4
> second (assuming radio travels 186,000 miles per second and the
> satellite's orbit is 22,500 miles).
> 
> My web browser (Firefox on Ubuntu Dapper) requests a page.
> 
> 1/4 second travel delay.
> 
> Hughes Net gets the page (assume no time) and sends it to me.
> 
> 1/4 second travel delay.
> 
> My web browser notices that the page has an embedded item from another
> location and requests that.
> 
> 1/4 second travel delay
> 
> Hughs Net gets the requested item and sends it to me.
> 
> 1/4 second travel delay
> 
> On many commercial sites, an embedded item may in turn have another
> embedded item so the 1/2 delay repeats.  As an example, I went to the
> AT&T website and watched as it jumped back and forth between items from
> the AT&T website and the SBC website.  Pages took 30 seconds to load.  I
> suspect that without the satellite latency, the average user (high speed
> or even dial up) wouldn't have noticed all the jumping back and forth.
> 
> Any way, I had an idea. I could run a program on a machine I use for web
> hosting. I could send a request to the program on that machine. That
> program could request all the pieces of the web page, bundle them
> together and then send the whole thing back to me in one chunk. That way
> there would be only one trip up and back to the satellite.
> 
> Hughes Net offers something called Turbo Page, and I suspect that that
> is doing something similar, but it may not be working because I'm not
> using Windows and IE.
> 
> Would something like this work?
> 
> TIA,
> Mark
> 
> 
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