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wwwoffled(8)		    System Manager's Manual		  wwwoffled(8)

NAME
       wwwoffled - A proxy server for the World	Wide Web Offline Explorer.

SYNOPSIS
       wwwoffled [-h|--help] [--version] [-c <config-file>] [-d	[<log-level>]]
       [-l <log-file>] [-f] [-p]

DESCRIPTION
       wwwoffled  is  a	 proxy	HTTP server for	the World Wide Web Offline Ex-
       plorer program.	Using a	standard web browser with the HTTP  proxy  set
       to the wwwoffled	server,	web pages can be requested while not connected
       to the internet.

       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-in-
       teractively.

       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,	inter-
       active 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 al-
       phabetical order, by following links from this page.  There is also in-
       dexes available showing the pages that have been	modified in  the  last
       week,  those fetched last time online and those requests	that are wait-
       ing 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://local-
       host: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/.

OPTIONS
       -h | --help
	      A	help message is	printed	giving a brief description of the  us-
	      age of the program.

       --version
	      The version number of the	program	is printed.

       -c <config-file>
	      The  configuration  for the program is stored in a configuration
	      file wwwoffle.conf(5).  This argument specifies to  the  program
	      the  name	of that	file.  Sending a HUP signal to the daemon will
	      cause this config	file to	be re-read.

       -d [<log-level>]
	      Do not detach from the terminal when starting and	 report	 error
	      messages	on  standard  error.  The log-level is a number	from 0
	      (for no output on	stderr)	to 6 (for  full	 debugging  output  on
	      stderr).	 If  this  is  not specified then the log-level	in the
	      config file is used.

       -l <log-file>
	      Detach from the terminal but write to a log file what would have
	      been written to stderr if	the -d option had been used.  Defaults
	      to using a log level of 4, but using the -d  option  can	change
	      this  (but  it  will still detach).  Sending a HUP signal	to the
	      daemon will cause	this log file to be closed and re-opened.

       -f     Start the	daemon in debugging mode (implies -d and overrides -l)
	      and when the first HTTP request comes in handle it without  cre-
	      ating a child process and	then exit.

       -p     Print  the  pid  of the daemon process on	stdout.	This option is
	      ignored if the -d	or -f options are used.

FILES
       /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf The wwwoffle.conf(5)	configuration file.

SEE ALSO
       wwwoffle(1), wwwoffle.conf(5)

AUTHOR
       Andrew M. Bishop	1996-2013.

				March 16, 2013			  wwwoffled(8)

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