Re: wwwoffle

[Brian Potkin <brian@copernicus.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:05:35PM +0200, Tomasz Olszewski wrote:

> Hello!
> I've got a problem with wwwoffle 2.5c (potato r2). Quite often my
> Netscape is not able to communicate wit wwwoffle. The browser shows only
> an error message: "A communications error occured. Please try again".
> Trying again doesn't seem to help ;) Everything is alright when I try to
> view an unfortunate page for the first time (with clear proxy's cache).
> The bad thing happens when I want to visit it again. Such page is
> http://www.onet.pl (one of the biggest polish portals). It occurs
> sometimes on http://groups.google.com too. I configured Netscape to use
> the proxy through the "autoconfig file" (localhost:8080/wwwoffle.pac).

I am not absolutely certain of the cause of this problem but it may have
something to do with the way wwwoffle locks files when getting a URL.
There was a discussion about this a while ago on uk.comp.os.linux with
the author of the program participating.

The same difficulties ocurred for me also.  My solution was to get the
version of wwwoffle in testing.  This installs ok on potato and there is
an option in /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf which may help.  Look for 

lock-files = yes | no

Brian.