in reply to Newbie question in threading

In addition to Corion's notes about scrapping Google and hitting servers with 250 concurrent requests. Doing a GET, if all you need are the headers is horribly wasteful of your targets server resources and bandwidth as well as your own bandwidth. A HEAD request should be all you need.

It's also wasteful to start a new thread just to perform 1 simple operation each time.

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