sbool loadSnippets_verbose;

static L<S> loadSnippets(S... ids) {
  ret loadSnippets(asList(ids));
}

static L<S> loadSnippets(L<S> ids) ctex {
  new L<S> texts;
    
  new StringBuilder buf;
  new Map<Long, S> cached;
  initSnippetCache();
  for (S id : ids) {
    long snippetID = psI(id);
    S text = DiskSnippetCache_get(snippetID);
    S md5 = text != null ? md5(text) : ".";
    if (loadSnippets_verbose)
      print(id + " => " + md5 + " - " + quote(shorten(text, 20)));
    mapPut(cached, snippetID, text);
    buf.append(snippetID).append(" ").append(md5).append(" ");
  }
  if (loadSnippets_verbose)
    print("loadSnippets post data: " + buf);

  Map<S, O> map = jsonDecodeMap(doPost(
    "ids=" + urlencode(trim(str(buf))) + standardCredentials(),
    tb_mainServer() + "/get-multi2.php"));
    
  for (S id : ids) {
    long snippetID = psI(id);
    O result = map.get(str(snippetID));
    if (loadSnippets_verbose)
      print(id + " => " + className(result));
    if (result instanceof S) {
      texts.add((S) result);
      DiskSnippetCache_put(snippetID, (S) result);
    } else
      texts.add(cached.get(snippetID));
  }
  ret texts;
}

Began life as a copy of #1003764