Dear wwwoffle list,

I've just installed wwwoffle on my standard SuSE 7.3 Linux PC 
(stand-alone desktop). It seems to be exactly what I need, but I am 
not getting it to work. I've tried the Netscape 4 and the Konqueror 
browsers and set the proxy for http as localhost and port 8080 as 
suggested in the instructions (the automatic configuration tool for 
Netscape doesn't work, by the way), and disabled the browsers' own 
caches.

Wwwoffle itself seems to work: I can run the commands from the 
command line or the control page, use the browser with wwwoffle 
online and find some of the urls visited in the cache index. However, 
trying to open the urls while offline only returns the same error 
page each time: xy couldn't be found on port 80.

Well, there seems to be a port mixup somewhere, but it is beyond me 
to find out where. A recent convert to Linux from Windows and 
Macintosh, I am a typical mouse-clicker and have never worked with 
networks either, so don't know much about these ports. I've read the 
documentation available, but it doesn't really help me. I did try 
setting the browsers to port 80 instead of 8080, but this doesn't 
help.

Suggestions for proceeding?

Theo Schmidt, Switzerland


PS another puzzling thing: The kde dialer kinternet (frontend to 
wvdial) can automatically switch wwwoffle online and offline. 
However, this only works for me if I start kinternet from a terminal 
(it is then in English, although my installation is in German). If I 
start kinternet from the kde kicker, it has the options regarding 
wwwoffle greyed out (this version of kinternet is in German). Both 
versions of kinternet otherwise work the same and use the same 
settings.

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