D.Popkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M. Bishop) writes:
>
> > WWWOFFLE is, and I intend it to remain, a proxy that you can use
> > offline, it is not a web archive.
>
> Yet it includes a disk-based (non-volatile) web cache. What's the
> difference? Is it just a matter of dynamic content for some URLs?
A web archiving program would be a useful addition to the free
software / open source community. It is my opinion that if anybody
writes such a program then it would be better if written as a server
than as a proxy.
A proxy *requires* that you configure your browser to use it while a
web server allows anybody to access it if they know the URL. A proxy
requires you to send all of your requests through it while a server is
only consulted in requests for the archive.
WWWOFFLE is a proxy, but the cache is persistent (like most proxies),
but accessible when offline (unlike most proxies). This is the one
feature that makes WWWOFFLE what it is, the abililty to access the
latest cached content when offline.
--
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
