Ummm... why exactly does the app have to download and re-create the whole MtGox homepage every 15 seconds?
We're talking of a 20 kB file here, that's just under 5 MB worth of unnecessary bandwidth and disk writes per hour or 1.7
GB per month assuming the PC is running 12/7.
That's sloppy engineering if I ever saw one and I'm sure MtGox doesn't think much of it either.
Surely, you could get away with much less data?
The only good thing I can say is that ObiWan didn't try to grab the honeypot wallet.dat I prepared
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