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/.