
wwwoffled(8)            OpenBSD System Manager's Manual           wwwoffled(8)



NAME
       wwwoffled - A proxy server for the World Wide Web Offline Explorer.


SYNOPSIS
       wwwoffled [-h] [-c <config-file>] [-d [<log-level>]] [-p]


DESCRIPTION
       wwwoffled is a proxy HTTP server for the World Wide Web Offline
       Explorer program.  Using a standard web browser with the HTTP proxy set
       to the wwwoffled server, web pages can be requested while not connected
       to the internet.

       When the computer is connected to the internet, the server will fetch
       the web pages requested by the browser and also store them in the
       cache.  When the computer is not connected, browsing of the pages in
       the cache is still possible, and links can be followed.  This causes
       the request for the page to be stored by the proxy server until a later
       time when the computer is connected and the pages are fetched non-
       interactively.

       Pages that are requested from a server on the same host (localhost) are
       not cached, and are always fetched fresh from the server.

       There is a welcome page at the URL http://localhost:8080/ that contains
       some information about the program and links to the cache index,
       interactive refresh page, interactive control page and WWWOFFLE
       internet home page.

       The pages that are stored in the cache can be indexed by using the URL
       http://localhost:8080/index/ to get a list of the hosts that have
       cached pages.  The index allows sorting of the pages into time or
       alphabetical order, by following links from this page.  There is also
       indexes available showing the pages that have beem modified in the last
       week, those fetched last time online and those requests that are
       waiting to be fetched next time online.

       The functions available from the wwwoffle(1) program for fetching URLs
       are also available in the interactive refresh page at
       http://localhost:8080/refresh/.

       The functions available from the wwwoffle(1) program for controlling
       the wwwoffled program are also available in the interactive control
       page at http://localhost:8080/control/.


OPTIONS
       -h     A help message is printed giving a brief description of the
              usage of the program.

       -c <config-file>
              The configuration for the program is stored in a configuration
              file wwwoffle.conf(5).  This argument specifies to the program
              the name of that file.  Sending a HUP signal to the demon will
              cause this config file to be re-read.

       -d [<log-level>]
              Do not detach from the terminal when starting and report error
              messages on standard error.  The log-level is a number from 0
              (for no output on stderr) to 5 (for debugging output on stderr).
              If this is not specified then the log-level in the config file
              is used.

       -p     Print the pid of the daemon process on stdout. This option
              cannot be used with option -d.


FILES
       /var/spool/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf The wwwoffle.conf(5) configuration
       file.


SEE ALSO
       wwwoffle(1), wwwoffle.conf(5)


AUTHOR
       Andrew M. Bishop 1996,1997,1998,1999 (amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk)



                               August 29th, 1999                  wwwoffled(8)
