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Re: Does anyone know of a web buffer type of thing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Tue Oct 20 19:47:21 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:17:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Chuck Mead wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Merten, Joe wrote:
>
>> Can anyone point me to something for Linux that will....
>>
>> I'm planning on setting up a linux box to act as a firewall for my small
>> home network. I would like something that could follow links that one of
>> the workstations requested and sort of "pre-fetch" the links on the page
>> (while the workstation user is reading the page) so that when the
>> workstation requested the next page it would already be downloaded through
>> the modem and ready to present to the workstation.
>
>Squid is the closest thing I can think of.
>
I still use wwwoffle, written by Andrew Bishop. I've not found an RPM for
it yet. (might have to package it up myself)
It won't pre-fetch (does squid do that?) but will cache off-line, and you
can specify directory trees to get in the background.
- dave
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