Hi all,
I'm new to the list so please excuse any faux pas.
I am laso fairly new to wwwoffle and I love it.
However I am not using it as the various descrips of the
program describe. I don't ever use a modem. What wwwoffle
does for me is to let me pull web content onto my notebook
computer, disconnect from the LAN, and read it on the bus or
on the plane or in the park. I've also use it to snarf maps
and driving directions to use to get to my destination (tho
navigating with the HP Omnibook popout mouse without a hard
surface is a challenge).
Kudos to the authors for coming up with such a powerful tool!
I'm also using it on my desktop machine to selectively
prefetch websites I visit often (great feature) and cut out
the most offensive adverts (tho I don't find all the
advertisers offensive; so far yahoo's banner ads have
survived the cut).
What I'd love to do (if it's possible) is to merge the
settings and sites to monitor and sites to fetch and sites
to block to the laptop when I leave and merge the requests
I made when on the road back to the desktop machine when I
come back. Ideally it would merge caches too. My ideal
would be to have wwwoffle monitoring the sites I typically
visit so I can read the latest slashdot and news and comic
strips unconnected.
(BTW I put this mobile machine together for ~$400: $200 for
the OB800 on ebay, $130 for a new 20GB hard drive and ~$70
for the cardbus ethernet card)
I know where the block sites url regexps are (after all,
you have to edit the .conf file to do it). I'm not sure if
automatically merging .conf files is good practice, but I
could probably do it with a little perl.
What I don't know is where wwwoffle stores its list of sites
to fetch and monitor, nor what format they are in, nor
whether I can just copy cache files into a common directory
and expect wwwoffle to find them.
Anyways, any help would be appreciated, as would any
pointers to faq's, howto's, or other docs.
I'd also like to propose that the authors consider changing
the name of this amazing program. "www" doesn't do it justice
(it handles protocols other than http), and offl doesn't
either (since it does great stuff online as well as offline
- now I don't use junkbuster or squid. Heck, this is the
most powerful end-user web-content manager and
cache and filter and prefetcher I've seen.
siphon? pulls things out
sucker? maybe too deprecating; might scare people away
waffle? evokes the current name without being an inaccurate acronym
Thanks in advance!
--
Tony
