Re: wwwoffle - how do I use it?
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In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980927210930.546A-100000@Johann>,
jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za wrote:
>I do not understand how wwwofle works. When online I try to go to a
>specific site on the web (using lynx), I get the message "wwwofle will
>get". That is nice for reading ofline, but how do I go the site directly?
The wwwoffle daemon (wwwoffled) has three "modes" it can operate in.
When it's in offline mode, it treats all attempts to get a URL as
requests to be tried later. When it's in online mode, requesting a
URL just causes that URL to be fetched immediately. When it's in
fetch mode (must be online) it fetches the queued requests from
offline mode.
To switch from offline to online or back, you just type these
commands:
wwwoffle -online
wwwoffle -offline
I'll leave starting a "fetch" as an exercise for the reader.
What I did was add those lines to my ip-up and ip-down scripts
respectively, so when I'm dialed into my ISP, wwwoffle doesn't stop my
web use, but when I'm offline, it caches requests for later.
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