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?

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