WWWOFFLE A simple proxy server with special features for use with dial-up internet links.
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A simple proxy server with special features for use with dial-up internet links. wwwoffled application is a simple proxy 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. Here are some key features of "WWWOFFLE": 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). · Requests chunked transfer encoding from web servers. 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. · Remove Cookies in meta tags. · Provides information about cached pages · Headers, raw and modified. · Contents, images, links etc. · Source code unmodified by WWWOFFLE. · 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). · Use chunked transfer-encoding to web browser. 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. What's New in This Release: · A small set of minor bugfixes collected over the last 12 months.

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