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+## getpages
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+An experiment in utilizing channels to obtain concurrency, while requesting data from multiple websites.
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+-	*getPage* queries the the URL and returns the body length
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+-	*main* walks through a collection of URLs and calls `getPage` for each
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+-	Time durations are collected for each URL request and the main loop