Gentlemen, below in my second Thought flash, please find my 'wwwoffle insurance' concept.
>>>>> "A" == Andrew M Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Feature request: like -o, -O, but get item from the cache >> unconditionally, even if online at the moment. A> wwwoffle-read Thought flash: turn some wwwoffle-tools into just more options of the main wwwoffle command, thus they could step into the limelight. >> Also a URL http://localhost:8080/......Real_url >> that will do the same, so I can do >> $ lynx http://localhost:8080/......Real_url >> rest assured that I can browse the cached file, >> without having to fetch it again, just because I'm online... A> Why would you want to do this? Is it just a case of not wanting to A> download the URL again? yes, whopping large file that hardly changed, and would be a shame to download again, and may well fail to download again, i.e. bye bye forever, as there no ....... wait ....... brilliant[?] idea: wwwoffle insurance: all files that have been newly redownloaded will have their older versions kept in a temporary area for [default] one week, just in case something is wrong with the new version, e.g., the web page author removed all the local police scanner frequencies under pressure, and now you are just left with an apology taking the place of that important data you used to have. You checked google etc. for a backup but could find none. Perhaps have this directory of 'insurance' or 'backup' files be just another top level directory, like outgoing, etc. Also on that page, give instructions on how one can make one of the 'insurance' files be restored as the official version of what it insures, or how to give it a different name, so it doesn't get axed after a week, etc. Probably with wwwoffle-mv, etc. furthermore, lets say you download the same file twice when online. Insurance would cover the first one two, in case the second one had some unfortunate incident. Yes wwwoffle's configuration has plenty of safety considerations, but no in the face of say, 200 OK's A> You could always run two WWWOFFLE proxies on the same computer as A> described in the FAQ. One of them goes online and the other one A> doesn't. Then you can use http://localhost:9080/http/www.foo/bar.html A> to see the cached version as-if you were offline. OK.
