Marc Boucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 07:24 15/08/2002 +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> >[<URL-SPEC>] images = yes | no
> >If images are to be fetched (default=no).
> >
> >Is it possible to tweak a global "accept images that come from
> >the originating server only" option?
> >
> >Both mozilla-1.0 and Linux Opera-6.2 offer such an option - so I presume
> >that it is doable.
>
> The problem is that when the browsers do this they are the program in
> control of the parsing of the html code, and of the requests to the servers.
> This is also how WWWOFFLE works when fetching.
> In proxy mode, WWWOFFLE only receives requests from the browsers. It
> doesn't know which page the image is attached to.
If all of the users of WWWOFFLE always use the option in their browser
to only "fetch images from the same server" then having an option in
the FetchOptions section of WWWOFFLE should work. I have added this
to the TODO list.
If I add this option and people use it without having the same option
set in the browser then it means that the browser will request the
images when the page is viewed. This is worse than the current
situation because the images that are requested will be fetched the
next time online but the user might never visit the page again. You
have therefore fetched images that you will never look at.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.7/user.html
