RFE: offline browsing support including to fetch page next time polipo goes online

[leggewie]

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]

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

[leggewie]

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]

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.

Toujours la même chose...