Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've used wwwoffle for some years, and it 'just works' for me.
So, naturally, when I realised a need for a possibly related bit of software,
and lacking results from google. I started wondering if anyone had thought of,
or knows of an implementation or proof of concept with wwwoffled.
Basically, it's a two part web proxy to drastically reduce web usage bandwidth.
One part resides on a mobile device with a (usually) poor bandwidth link, but
relatively large amount of storage, that may occasionally be plugged into a high
speed network.
The other part is on server, connected via a fast connection to the internet.
Have you seen the (no longer maintained) rsync-over-HTTP protocol that
is at http://rproxy.samba.org/. This combines rsync and HTTP to be
able to only transfer the updates just like you want.
They describe just what you are looking for, but since nobody was
interested about using it they seem to have given up.
Interesting, thanks!
Googling had found me little.
Before you ask, I don't plan to add it into WWWOFFLE.
Initial design was planned to be a little server on host and client,
that implemented this by changing the files in the wwwoffle cache,
rather than properly implementing stuff.
If eventually I generated a patch for WWWOFFLE, that mostly 'just
worked', without greatly complicating the core logic, are there any
circumstances in which it might be included?
Thanks again for the leads!
