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The Polipo caching HTTP proxy
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/
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RFE: offline browsing support including to fetch page next time polipo goes online #67

Closed leggewie closed 9 years ago

leggewie commented 9 years ago

Hello,

based on my positive experience with WWWOFFLE I'd like to suggest for polipo to offer to download a page the next time it goes online when it is in offline mode and the request cannot be fulfilled from the cache. This had been discussed previously in #31 but it is quite clear that either I don't understand Juliusz or the other way around or both. This is an incredibly useful feature I find and thus, I'd like to discuss it further.

What I want polipo to do (and what WWWOFFLE did when I was still using it) is to display a page notifying the user that the polipo is currently offline and the requested URI not present in the cache. The user is then presented with a link that will instruct polipo to fetch that URI the next time it goes online. This makes "offline browsing" incredibly comfortable and was one of my favourite features of WWWOFFLE. I don't see how wget alone as suggested by Juliusz would be able to replace this functionality.

http://www.gedanken.org.uk/viewvc/wwwoffle/trunk/cache/html/en/messages/ConfirmRequest.html?revision=2124&view=markup is basically the markup that was doing this in WWWOFFLE.

Thank you for your consideration.

Regards

Rolf

jech commented 9 years ago

As mentioned in #31, I have no plans to work on that. Please do not reopen this bug again.

leggewie commented 9 years ago

No, that's not what you said in #31. The only thing I can gather from that ticket is your lack of understanding for the request and indirectly your lack of care to understand.

Unfortunately, that's a pattern in polipo development and probably a good reason as to why the software is still basically unusable after years and years of (non)development.

leggewie commented 9 years ago

It's unfortunate you even have to go as far as to censor the discussion here (some of my discussion comments were removed and I'm sure this one won't be long-lived). Very poor style - as usual.

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