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In article <840195111snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
           john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" wrote:

>        Go grab that file.
>        Go grab the whole of that site.

What do you mean by "that site"?  As I understand it you can't do a
'dir' on the remote site - or can you?  If you use a URL of (for
instance) "http://www.keris.demon.co.uk/graphics" then Netscape pulls up
a listing of what's in my 'graphics' subdirectory (just . and .. at
present, but I thought I'd plan ahead).

>        Go grab that page and its immediate links.
>        Go grab... but just the html.
>        Go.. but just the html and piccies (no .zips etc)
>        Grab the off-site links, just to the 1st level.
>        etc
>
>Phew!  In essence I think it boils down to six
>different depth parameters, factored into
>offsite/onsite, and html/images/other.

I get an 'or':

    (Page | Site)
    HTML
    images
    binaries

as well as a depth for following HTML links.

>A proxy.  You go into your browser, set the proxy
>as //yournodename.demon.co.uk:8080 and start surfing.
>Your proxy doesn't talk to the outside world, so
>it can't (first time) satisfy your request(s).  But
>it writes a file for ka9q.
>
>You then go online and the files are fetched.  Offline,
>restart the browser and now the proxy has what you
>want.  The difference between this and a cache is
>that it's a read-ahead cache, controlled by the
>six depth settings described above.
>
>One problem is it needs multitasking, so if you don't
>browse under Windows (or Desqview?) then you're stuffed.

DV won't handle it unless you have a couple of local COM ports (or
possibly a common packet driver).  But Unix is fine, as is any flavour
of Windows (personally I'd go for Win95 or WinNT, writing in pure 32-bit
mode is much preferable to the segmented architecture)...

But otherwise that sounds like a good idea...

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