- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:39:54 -0600
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: MarkH@i2.co.uk, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
"Henry S. Thompson" wrote: > > MarkH@i2.co.uk writes: > > > I work from home (56k modem connection) and office (big fat connection) and > > the need to be online when validating makes working from home very tedious. > > In the past I have saved local copies of the various specs and DTDs and > > mangled my files to use them, but this is painful (tracking them all down) > > and error prone (having to keep files with hacked URLs). > > > > It would be lovely if XSV could have an offline mode where it would save > > copies of resources locally and use them when not online. > > > > Is this something that others would benefit from? > > > > Henry - what do you think about this? > > I'm all in favour of the functionality described. I wish someone > would implement a simple universal caching proxy for offline use: To my satisfaction, someone has: [[[ The WWWOFFLE Homepage World Wide Web Offline Explorer The wwwoffled program 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. ]]] -- The WWWOFFLE Homepage http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/ Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:08:11 GMT I've been using it... specifically, the debian package: wwwoffle 2.5c-10 (502.1k) http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/wwwoffle.html ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/web/wwwoffle_2.5c-10.deb for several days now, and I'm quite satisfied. > XSV > uses standard http libraries I think the python urlopener libraries include caching support, Henry. Any volunteers to look into the details there? > and is therefore sensitive to the value > of the http_proxy environment variable. Were such a proxy available, > all that would be required would be to first while online launch the > proxy, set http_proxy to point to it, run XSV on the relevant > documents, then be free to run offline with the same proxy. Perhaps > such a proxy already exists? Yup. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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