> > 1. That works. I'm curious why this is needed by
> > htttrack but not when I use an online browser?
> Don't look at the site for a week, then your
> browser's cookie will have expired also.

Seems to expire within a few hours with httrack: don't have that viewing
online.
> 
> > 1b Action=update appears to be downloading files
> it
> > already has.  Is that expected?
> 1) You said it previously purged everything, so it
> has to redownload.

Understand.  I had done that but then when it started downloading more stuff
than I was expecting from an external site I cancelled it, changed the
options, set update, and restarted it.  At which point it started
redownloading large zips it already had.

> 2) There is a difference bestween it checking if a
> file has changed (~5 queries/sec) and redownloading
> it (bandwidth.) Also dynamic html pages are always
> new and must be redownloaded.

> 3) Is the url have something like
> sessionID=asdf123lkj0987 then the option merge
> similar urls may help

No sessionid-like paramaters in the page urls.

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