David Marsh SCDP
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:51:07 -0800
On 18 Mar 2001, at 17:20, Andrew M. Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rolf Leggewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am new to WWWOffle and I am very impressed by what the program can > > allegedly do. Allegedly so far, because I cannot get it to perform > > correctly. The version is 2.6a on a 233 Mhz Pentium II running English > > Windows 95a. My browsers (NS4.76 and IE5) point to the proxy > > 127.0.0.1:8080. > > I don't think that there have been any reports of it working on > Win95a. It has been tested on Win98, WinME & Win2000 and is known to > work on them. Works here (same version of wwwoffle [1]) on (what I believe to be) W95c (?) (Windows95 with USB support (CD says 1997, "About" window says 1996, and unlike most M$-ware "About" /doesn't/ contain a long identifying version number!), albeit wwwoffle starts up and changes mode (on/offline) somewhat more sluggishly than the original does on my rather poorer-specified FreeBSD box at home, but that, of course, is to be expected what with the Windows overhead ;-/ [1] although I replaced the cygwin library as supplied with wwwoffle with the (newer) one from the (partial) cygwin installation I installed on the machine (version 1.1.8-2), as I needed cygwin to run other programs and it understandably disagrees vehemently if I try to run two versions of the library at the same time. I don't know if this makes a difference? > > I have run the installer and then chose "Start WWWOffle" from the > > program menu (no changes made to the supplied config files). The > > program starts without an error and displays the message > > "wwwoffled[110865] Important: WWWOFFLE Demon Version 2.6a started.". > > Then I type "http://127.0.0.1:8080/" into the location bar of the > > browser and hit return. The hard drive makes a little noise, but then > > stops and nothing happens. Wait at least 10 seconds after starting wwwoffle before you do anything else. I also use sitecopy under cygwin, and it also takes a few seconds to startup after I type the command. I suspect there is a Windows issue that makes ported programs run rather more slowly (the shock of being assimilated by a real operating system is obviously too much for it ;-) > > WWWOffle displays the message > > "wwwoffled[110865] Important: Child wwwoffles terminated by signal 11 > > (pid=1908093)." That is all. The program displays the same behaviour > > for all URLs. > > The "signal 11" means that the program is crashing due to a > segmentation fault. This is not something that WWWOFFLE should do and as > far as I know doesn't do on any other system. I think I get a few of these errors as well occasionally (Child wwwoffles terminated), I can't remember the exact error message. Doesn't seem to cause any major problems, I presume new child processes are spawned if needed? Sometimes, when offline, when I click for an uncached link, the browser (IE5.5) seems to want to go look on the net for it: if I hit stop and reselect the link, then the "wwwoffle will get" response appears as expected. Interestingly, if I forget to start wwwoffle or put it online (bah, I can't believe Windows can't do this for you automatically!), IE seems to ignore the proxy and just fetch directly from the net, whereas Netscape and Opera rightly complain that they can't find the proxy (until I remember to start it!). Very occasionally, wwwoffle seems to 'drift off' and I have to completely stop and restart it. Sadly, I am becoming used to this scenario elsewhere with > -- > Andrew. Andrew, if I've not said so before: many thanks for wwwoffle, it's a great program! David. -- David Marsh, Scottish Cycling Development Proj. | tel: +44 141 287-9374 c/o Glasgow City Council | email,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Land Services: Cycle Unit | mobi: +44 77-121-848-90 20 Cadogan Str, GLASGOW GB- G2 7AD | http://www.scottishcycling.co.uk/ > Please trim quotes before replying / Ask before sending attachments <