WWWOFFLE - World Wide Web Offline Explorer - Version 2.7e ========================================================= The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use intermittent (dial-up) connections to the internet. Description ----------- The WWWOFFLE server is a proxy web server with special features for use with dial-up internet links. This means that it is possible to browse web pages and read them without having to remain connected. Basic Features - Caching of HTTP, FTP and finger protocols. - Allows the 'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST' and 'PUT' HTTP methods. - Interactive or command line control of online/offline/autodial status. - Highly configurable. - Low maintenance, start/stop and online/offline status can be automated. While Online - Caching of pages that are viewed for later review. - Conditional fetching to only get pages that have changed. - Based on expiration date, time since last fetched or once per session. - Non cached support for SSL (Secure Socket Layer e.g. https). - Can be used with one or more external proxies based on web page. - Control which pages cannot be accessed. - Allow replacement of blocked pages. - Control which pages are not to be stored in the cache. - Requests compressed pages from web servers (compile time option). While Offline - Can be configured to use dial-on-demand for pages that are not cached. - Selection of pages to download next time online - Using normal browser to follow links. - Command line interface to select pages for downloading. - Control which pages can be requested when offline. - Provides non-cached access to intranet servers. Automated Download - Downloading of specified pages non-interactively. - Options to automatically fetch objects in requested pages - Understands various types of pages - HTML 4.0, Java classes, VRML (partial), XML (partial). - Options to fetch different classes of objects - Images, Stylesheets, Frames, Scripts, Java or other objects. - Option to not fetch webbug images (images of 1 pixel square). - Automatically follows links for pages that have been moved. - Can monitor pages at regular intervals to fetch those that have changed. - Recursive fetching - To specified depth. - On any host or limited to same server or same directory. - Chosen from command line or from browser. - Control over which links can be fetched recursively. Convenience - Optional information footer on HTML pages showing date cached and options. - Options to modify HTML pages - Remove scripts. - Remove Java applets. - Remove stylesheets. - Remove shockwave flash animations. - Indicate cached and uncached links. - Remove the blink tag. - Remove refresh tags. - Remove links to pages that are in the DontGet list. - Remove inline frames (iframes) that are in the DontGet list. - Replace images that are in the DontGet list. - Replace webbug images (images of 1 pixel square). - Demoronise HTML character sets. - Stop animated GIFs. - Automatic proxy configuration for Netscape. - Searchable cache with the addition of the ht://Dig, mnoGoSearch (UdmSearch) or Namazu programs. - Built in simple web-server for local pages. - Allows CGI scripts - Timeouts to stop proxy lockups - DNS name lookups. - Remote server connection. - Data transfer. - Continue or stop downloads interrupted by client. - Based on file size of fraction downloaded. - Purging of pages from cache - Based on URL matching. - To keep the cache size below a specified limit. - To keep the free disk space above a specified limit. - Interactive or command line control. - Compression of cached pages based on age. - Provides compressed pages to web browser (compile time option). Indexes - Multiple indexes of pages stored in cache - Servers for each protocol (http, ftp ...). - Pages on each server. - Pages waiting to be fetched. - Pages requested last time offline. - Pages fetched last time online. - Pages monitored on a regular basis. - Configurable indexes - Sorted by name, date, server domain name, type of file. - Options to delete, refresh or monitor pages. - Selection of complete list of pages or hide un-interesting pages. Security - Works with pages that require basic username/password authentication. - Automates proxy authentication for external proxies that require it. - Control over access to the proxy - Defaults to local host access only. - Host access configured by hostname or IP address. - Optional proxy authentication for user level access control. - Optional password control for proxy management functions. - Can censor incoming and outgoing HTTP headers to maintain user privacy. Configuration - All options controlled using a configuration file. - Interactive web page to allow editing of the configuration file. - User customisable error and information pages. Changes ------- Since version 2.7d: Bug Fixes: Correct some invalid HTML in the message files. Fix some memory leaks, free some unfreed memory, check some pointers, close some files. Don't send the extra arguments to POST requests that WWWOFFLE uses internally. Removed segmentation fault potential when password not used in config file. Another fix for the cookie problem. Warn if running as root. Try both IPv6 and IPv4 socket binding (IPv6 may not accept IPv4). Potential bug fix for page corruption. Potential fix for IPv6 configuration on Solaris. New Features: Add an option to have case-insensitive matching for URL-SPEC path and args. Added the option to only fetch images on the same host (automatic fetching). Allow URL-SPECs to contain an '=' sign embedded in them (long time bug fix). The monitor options page now accepts ranges of hours or days (e.g. '1-5'). Availability ------------ Version 2.7e uploaded, but may not be available yet FTP server: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/www/servers/wwwoffle-2.7e.tgz FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/httpd/wwwoffle-2.7e.tgz Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/ Author & Copyright ------------------ This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,97,98,99,2000,01,02 (amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL. email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk [Please put wwwoffle in the subject line]