Hi Michael, thank you for the follow-up.
mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I would like for WWWOFFLE to do in this case is that after realising >> that the file is not available in >> /var/spool/wwwoffle/http/wherever.org/ to look on the CD-ROM and only >> after this fails as well to allow me to mark for download the next >> time. > A local web cache in fact is an archived backup from the web already. > Why making one more copy ? I am not looking for another copy, just a way to check whether a copy is available at a second location in case it is *NOT* available in the normal place. > Why not extend the expiry timespan (maybe fine- tuned on URLs) instead > ? I do not want to have one full year's worth of URLs in the cache, but I will from time to time look at individual pages once or twice a year. > The question to me appears to be, how to reduce lookup time ? No, the question is as I said how to access files on the CD-ROM but not present in the cache. > imho, from the UI point of view, making backups available could be done > via the request-page menu: Adding a choice 'search archive' This was one of my first thoughts as well since I could do it myself. But how do you deal with css, images and the like? > From the internal point of view, it could be a new directory 'archive' > in /var/cache/wwwoffle, containing symlinks to archive drives. I do not think that symlinks appear to be a good idea. Please read my OP for the reason. I think an optional loop for files not found in the "normal" cache would be the way to go. > Working only for http would be enough imho. Why? What differentiates it from FTP? How would an http-only solution be conceptually simpler? > Sure it's possible to code, but always there's a lot of stuff to do, and > the question is, would this feature be as important as others ? (See > 'Web Archive' thread around 14.12.02) I do not have those messages anymore. Was it about Jidanni's idea to have several copies of individual URLs? IIRC, the arguments brought forth by Andrew at the time would not apply in this case. *I am not looking for several copies of the same URL to be accessible* > I mean, why not ask on vger.kernel.org to implement it in the kernel > ;-) What does the kernel have to do with it? BTW, I use WWWOFFLE on Windows most of the time ;-) Best Regards Rolf -- http://home.arcor.de/leggewie/ http://leggewie.biz/hamster.htm
