You have to lauch the wwwoffle daemon, wwwoffled, first while offline. Have you try?
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:22:52AM +0100, Theo Schmidt wrote: > 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.
