Re: DontRequest

Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wwwoffle.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A> [<URL-SPEC>] request-changed = -1 ... will always use the cached
A> version of the specified URL when you are online

Yes, well 99% of the pages are ones I've never visited before, so
there is no cached version.

Given a outgoing list of 80 .htmls that I don't want images for, and 5
that I do, all onetime gets, i.e., no URLs worth hardwiring into
wwwoffle.conf, probably my online strategy will be
1. Block images until all pages are fetched.
2. Remove image block from wwwoffle.conf
3. rerequest pages that I want to see later with images.
OK, I'll try it.

OK, I even made this Makefile to toggle back and forth:
images noimages:wwwoffle.conf
	m4 --define=$@ $?.m4|sed '/^$$/d;/^#/d'>$?
	wwwoffle -config

I had better watch out next time I upgrade wwwoffle though, as
updating will intend to update wwwoffle.conf ... Hopefully I can back
out of my m4 solution before then as new wwwoffle features will
obviate it: a way to still get
refresh-recurse/?url=http://bla;depth=0;stylesheets=Y;images=Y;frames=Y
bypassing DontGet, I suppose.
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