On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> "M.Kirillov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > some page(s) offline then fetch it. I think it would be
> > usable to implement a mode which allows to browse th cache
> > while fetching. Unfortunately, now it is impossible: in the
> > online mode - all requests goes to the net, in the autodial
> > more WWWOFFLE refuses to fetch.
> The idea that I had when I implemented autodial mode (which was not my
> idea originally) is that users would be in autodial mode all the time
> or they would use online/offline to change mode.
For what it's worth, I have "wwwoffle -online" in /etc/ppp/ip-up, and
"wwwoffle -autodial" in /etc/ppp/ip-down, the idea being to browse the
cache without bringing the connection up needlessly while off line,
but once the demand dialing has kicked in (and I've paid the nickel),
there's no reason not to check the headers on all pages. Of course,
this doesn't apply to folks who pay by the minute.
In practice, it doesn't take much to bring the link up: launching
Communicator always does it (I think it does name lookups on the the
bookmarks file), as does running the htdig maintenance scripts.
Frederick
