Dan Armak wrote on 2003-06-01: > wwwoffled (WWW Offline Daemon) from http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ is a nice > transparent caching proxy. It has a powerful config file that lets you force > a site (or any wildcard expression against the url) to stay in cache for X > days or indefinitely, etc. It also provides an interface for configuration > and searching the cache via http. And it accepts cli commands to fetch pages > or whole sites, or you could just tell wget to use it as proxy and fetch > >/dev/null. > Cool! Thanks for the pointer (to Tzafrir too, who suggested the same). Got, compiled, already running well ;-).
> However, it stores cached pages using hashed filenames, so accessing them > without using it is hard. I don't know if you can disable that - its page > goes into more detail. > The CLI tools there look enough and I can always "check out" with wget... > About plugging in cache pieces, since it hashes the filenames, you'd need to > prepare them with another wwwoffle installation. So it's not clean in that > regard. Still, maybe you'll find it useful. > Definitely. wget is fine; tarballs are just easier on the servers; the ideas about standard pathes and packages were targeted at a future when all linuxes would run something like this so that at least for documentation a complete unification of installed docs with online docs could take place. - - - Now I just need to grab all interesting mailing lists offline ;-). wgetting web archives is probably very unfriendly (and not very convenient to read). I can get 95% percent of them in NNTP format (some builtin, some through gmane). What I need is an NNTP proxy (node?). Posting ability is optional (all have SMTP gateways), I just want to read (and search). Any quick recommendations for the easiest program, there seem to be many of them? -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Three Laws of Copy-Protechnics: http://www.technion.ac.il/~cben/threelaws.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
