Re: Not quite wwwoffle - for mobiles and low bandwidth use.

Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> Ian Stirling <wwwoffle-users-z7eVwNY/[email protected]> writes:
> 
> 
>>I've used wwwoffle for some years, and it 'just works' for me.
>>
>>So, naturally, when I realised a need for a possibly related bit of software,
>>and lacking results from google. I started wondering if anyone had thought of,
>>or knows of an implementation or proof of concept with wwwoffled.
>>
>>Basically, it's a two part web proxy to drastically reduce web usage bandwidth.
>>One part resides on a mobile device with a (usually) poor bandwidth link, but
>>relatively large amount of storage, that may occasionally be plugged into a high
>>speed network.
>>
>>The other part is on server, connected via a fast connection to the internet.
> 
> 
> Have you seen the (no longer maintained) rsync-over-HTTP protocol that
> is at http://rproxy.samba.org/.  This combines rsync and HTTP to be
> able to only transfer the updates just like you want.
> 
> They describe just what you are looking for, but since nobody was
> interested about using it they seem to have given up.

Interesting, thanks!
Googling had found me little.

> Before you ask, I don't plan to add it into WWWOFFLE.

Initial design was planned to be a little server on host and client, 
that implemented this by changing the files in the wwwoffle cache, 
rather than properly implementing stuff.

If eventually I generated a patch for WWWOFFLE, that mostly 'just 
worked', without greatly complicating the core logic, are there any 
circumstances in which it might be included?

Thanks again for the leads!