Deduplicate concurrent downloads of the same URL

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Write a downloader that many threads call with URLs. Downloads of different URLs run in parallel. When several threads ask for the same URL at the same time, only one of them downloads it; the others wait and then all get that same result.

Discuss what the waiting threads should see if the download fails.

UberCodingLast asked Apr 2026
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