Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Let's say I have 50 items in outgoing to fetch, and 10 minutes of
> modem time to do it.
>
> I would like wwwoffle to just first fetch exactly those items, and
> only after that, start getting images contained, if time remains.
>
> I would rather have 50 pages without images, than just 10 with images,
> as only a few pages perk my interest so I want to see them in full.
> Anyway, this just points to an important TODO issue: some way of
> controlling the order of items fetched, beyond the mere luck of the
> Unix filesystem or whatever.
In very old versions of WWWOFFLE (before version 1.2e I think) the
requests were fetched in the order that they were made. This had to
be changed because the way that it worked meant that for very large
numbers of outgoing requests it got slow.
The current method will tend to get the pages requested offline first,
but won't do anything to guarantee this.
If you are trying to save money the best thing that you can do is to
add entries to the configuration file that restrict the frequency with
which certain pages are requested. I would imagine that for sites
that you monitor on a regular basis that there are a lot of images
that are repeatedly fetched without any change in the content.
--
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-2.8/user.html
