wwwoffle

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The wwwoffle program is used to control the wwwoffled program, to tell it when the computer is online or offline, and which URLs to get and when to fetch them.

The control options are also available from the server on an interactive control web page at http://localhost:8080/control/.  

OPTIONS

-h

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

-online

Tell the wwwoffled proxy server that the computer is online to the internet and that requests are to be fetched immediately.

-autodial

Tell the wwwoffled proxy server that the computer can become online to the internet if required for requests that are not already cached, but that pages that are in the cache do not require any netwrok access. This is intended for use with dial-on-demand systems (using diald for example).

-offline

Tell the wwwoffled proxy server that the computer is not online to the internet and that requests are to be cached until they are fetched later.

-fetch

Tell the wwwoffled proxy server to fetch all of the requests that have been cached. (The proxy server must be online for this to work.) The program will wait until all of the requests have been met before exiting.

-config

Tell the wwwoffled proxy server to re-read the configuration file.

-purge

Tell the wwwoffled proxy server that the cache is to be purged. The configuration file wwwoffle.conf(5) specifies the maximum age of the pages to keep. If a maximum cache size is specified then the oldest pages are deleted until the size is not exceeded.

-kill

Tell the wwwoffled proxy server to exit cleanly at the next convenient point.

url

The URL of a web page that is to be fetched. This is the same as using a browser and entering the URL if not already in the cache or pressing the refresh button in the index if it is in the cache.

file

The name of an HTML file that is to be parsed and the links in it are to be fetched as if the URLs had been specified on the command line.

-o

Fetch the specified URL (from the cache or request it if not already cached when offline, or get it when online) and output it on standard output. This is an easy way of getting an image out of the cache to be used in other programs.

-F

Force the specified URLs to be refreshed. Without this option, the page will not be fetched if not newer than the version on the server.

-r[<depth>]

Causes the pages linked to by the specified URLs also to be fetched if they are on the same host.

-R[<depth>]

The same as -r above, but it also works for links that are not on the same host.

-d[<depth>]

The same as -r above, but is limited to links in the same directory or a sub-directory.

-i

Also fetches the images that are included in the specified URLs.

-f

Also fetches the frames that are included in the specified URLs.

-c <config-file>

Specifies the name of the configuration file that contains the server host name, port number and authorisation password. This is required for the -online, -offline, -fetch, -config and -purge options if a password is set. The user must have read access to the configuration file to be able to use the command if a password is set. (See the StartUp and LocalHost section of wwwoffle.conf(5) for more information on setting the server host name, ports and password.)

-p <host>[:<port>]

Sets the hostname and port number that is to be ued for the connection to the proxy server. For the -online, -offline, -fetch, -config and -purge option this must be the wwwoffle demon port, for the url options it must be the http proxy server port. If no -p option is specified then the compiled in defaults are used.

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