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Linux-Announce Digest #610
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Linux-Announce Digest #610, Volume #4 Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:13:02 EST
Contents:
WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users ("Andrew M. Bishop")
attn: comp.os.linux.announce (I. MacHenry)
Commercial: QUIK Computing releases Ace Operator 1.2.3 (Amit Chatterjee)
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:38:14 CST
Subject: WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users
From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk>
WWWOFFLE - World Wide Web Offline Explorer - Version 2.8a
=========================================================
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).
- 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.
Changes
=======
Since version 2.8:
Bug Fixes:
Fix compilation problems on Win32 (Cygwin). Fixed upgrade-config.pl script
error with WWWOFFLE User-Agent. Fixed bugs with detecting type of compressed
data. Fixed compilation problems with dietlibc. Fix installation permission
problems. Added additional paths to search scripts. Perform a cleaner socket
shutdown. Fixed CSS in wwwoffle.css file. Fix potential and actual problems
with io functions.
New Features:
Modify response headers before performing HTML modifications.
Documentation:
Added FAQ question about Content-Length header.
Availability
============
Version 2.8a uploaded, but may not be available yet
FTP server: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/www/servers/wwwoffle-2.8a.tgz
FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/httpd/wwwoffle-2.8a.tgz
Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
Author & Copyright
==================
This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,97,98,99,2000,01,02,03
(amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL.
email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
[Please put wwwoffle in the subject line]
--
Andrew.
======================================================================
Andrew M. Bishop amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
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From: I. MacHenry <sneaker@usinbyvi.ky.us>
Subject: attn: comp.os.linux.announce
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 01:04:36 GMT
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-faq/part2", and/or
"send NEWS.ANSWERS/pictures-faq/part3" in the body of the message.
II. DOWNLOADING AND DECODING FILES
Basic checklist: Alternate checklist:
---------------- --------------------
News reader News reader (optional in some cases)
Text file editor "Super-decoder"
UUDECODEr
By far the most common method of posting files to the pictures
newsgroups is the UUENCODE standard. This program, shipped standard
with most implementations of UNIX, converts binary files into plain-text
ASCII files which can be handled by the mail system. You will need a
version of UUDECODE before anything else in order to view anything
downloaded from the net. If your system does not have a version of
UUDECODE available, you can get one via anonymous ftp from
bongo.cc.utexas.edu, in the gifstuff/uutools directory.
The format of a uuencoded file consists of an optional "table specification",
which consists of the word "table" alone on a line, followed by one or more
lines containing the characters that will be used in the remaining encoded
data. Following this, the standard requires the line containing only the text
"begin <permissions> <filename>" (where "<permissions>" is a three-character
numeric string, and "<filename>" notes the name of the dec
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:01:15 CST
From: Amit Chatterjee <amit.chatterjee@quik-j.com>
Reply-To: info@quik-j.com
Subject: Commercial: QUIK Computing releases Ace Operator 1.2.3
*/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/*
QUIK Computing Releases Ace Operator 1.2.3
*December 1, 2003
Raleigh, NC*
QUIK Computing is pleased to announce the release of Ace Operator
version 1.2.3. Ace Operator is a collaboration tool for enabling
interactive communications between live company representatives and
online users from web sites. By simply clicking on the "live help"
button, online customers can get access to company representatives and
exchange information in real-time. In addition, company representatives
can monitor online users and initiate a dialog with a user. Ace Operator
is ideal for online companies that offer products and services over the
web. It is also suitable for pre-sales collaboration and for customer
support centers. Ace Operator can be deployed in a hosting environment
as a revenue generating application for ASP/ISP and web hosting
companies. Ace Operator runs on any Java-enabled computer and is
supported on Linux and Windows operating systems. For more information
on the product, please visit
http://www.quik-computing.com .
This release of Ace Operator fixes a number of problems found in the
earlier release as well as contains enhancements that improves the
support for the hosting Ace Operator as a service as well as other
improvements in usability. It is a production-grade release and has been
released after months of testing. The next release is planned for
February 2004 and will consist of features that will make it even easier
for running Ace Operator in a hosted environment as well as further
improvements to the user interface.
About QUIK Computing:
QUIK Computing is a tightly knit group of software developers with
extensive experience working for leading software companies. Every QUIK
Computing developer is an independent thinker with expertise in multiple
disciplines and a passion for software development. Our developers
collaborate on every project to create a blueprint for the solution and
implement it using state-of-the-art development and testing tools.
Contact Information:
URL: http://www.quik-computing.com
E-mail: info@quik-j.com <mailto:info@quik-j.com>, sales@quik-j.com
<mailto:sales@quik-j.com>
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