Glenn, It appears cache and cache.idx should have gone one step further than it has.
In the cache.idx example that you posted on your site, "http://www.arachne.cz"; is the page source and is saved in the cache as: "\arachne\cache\55027588.HTM". Now, as you go thru cache.idx, everyplace you find, "http://www.navrcholu..."; in 55027588.HTM, if you replace it with the filename shown in the index, that image will appear when the page is viewed offline. If you do a "search and replace", searching for the "http://..."; name and replacing it with the alias cache name, no LFN's will be involved and the page would contain all of the graphics and links that it would have online. I hope that I am explaining this clearly enough. Roger Turk Glenn McCorkle wrote: Cache.idx can only be 'decoded' (so to speak), using the latest version of wwwman.exe Did you try viewing it with these key-strokes ? "U" and then link to "Cache Index". There you are. ;-) All of the original filenames along with their corresponding names in your cache directory. Here's a screen-cap of my cache index after loading the images at http://arachne.cz/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/images/cacheidx.gif And this is the .HTM file itself which was generated by wwwman.exe http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/images/cacheidx.htm On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:19:56 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Bastiaan, > I too looked at CACHE.IDX, but didn't copy it to a .TXT file to open it with > a text editor. > As I see it, the CACHE.IDX database relates the <http://....> image to the > stored cryptic cached name. There should be a way to extract the > <http://....> names from the database do a search and replace on the saved > web page, replacing <http://....> with the cryptic cached image name. > I do not know what database program CACHE.IDX uses, but I tried to access it > with FOXPRO2 and got the error message that CACHE.IDX is not a database, even > after I copied it to CACHE.DBF. I also did a web search on the extension, > ..IDX to see what database programs it might be associated with, but had no > success there either. > With FOXPRO2, you can copy fields to a text file with the command, > COPY TO [path]filename.txt FIELDS field1 field2 ... DELIMITED WITH ' > That would not give a long line and you would only need the fields that have > the image location on the original web page and the cryptic cached name. > A .BAT file then could do the search and replace and, if necessary, use a > routine like STRINGS.COM to increment thru the text file. > Roger Turk > Tucson, Arizona
