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Some thing simply can't/shouldn't be "handled"

Shalom Craimer
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:07:08 -0700

Certain sites would be silly to write a handler for. Like "The Onion" - the
content is displayed like a paper. There aren't any links to make shortcuts
for, and in total - it'd be simpler just displaying the data as-is. I've
encountered other sites that have the same problem.

So I started wondering, should NC go an fetch the webpages? As I recall,
David didn't really want to have NC act like an agent, so this might not be
a good idea. However, for people like me, who use dial-up connections, and
view the data offline - this would be great!

My idea: have a handler that takes a URL as a paramater, and returns a link
to a local HTML file, which may or may not have all the images from it
already downloaded and re-linked. It may even get all the links from that
page!


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