Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> F> I wanted to find out whether console browsers achieve their greater
> F> speeds by rejecting image files.
>
> I'm sure they do, but not when using them thru wwwoffle, as with
> wwwoffle, it doesn't matter if you use lynx or even wget, you are
> still going to get included images too. You must to things like
> $ wwwoffle -d0 URL
> to not get included images.
> Indeed, what if one's computer has one sighted user, and one blind
> user. Could a single wwwoffled and wwwoffle.conf file accommodate
> both without getting useless images for the blind user, and without
> him needing to leave his browser to use wwwoffle -d0 etc.?
> "My browser plays by the rules (standards) but still I end up getting
> images" he says.
If you request a URL when online then WWWOFFLE will fetch it for you.
This is all that it does. So if you are using a browser with images
disabled then the browser will not request the image URL and WWWOFFLE
will not get it.
If you request a URL when offline then WWWOFFLE will use the contents
of the FetchOptions section of the configuration file to decide what
to fetch. If you enable the 'images' option then it will fetch
images, if you don't enable it then it won't.
> Hmmm, perhaps wwwoffle should pay attention to browser generated
> request headers as an additional filter of what else not to get.
> Perhaps wwwoffle would then be '100% standards compliant"?
There are no headers that the browser sends that tells WWWOFFLE to get
the images or not get the images.
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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
