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Re: Request for an Offline Browser for Linux

Ted Powell (ted@eslvcr.fireplug.net)
Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:28:05 -0700

On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:51:54AM -0700, McCay,Aaron [PYR] wrote:
> Has anyone come across a readily accessible (i.e minimum amount of
> programming and preferably a shareware version) of an offline browser

Just about any browser can be used offline--not connected to the
Internet--to look at HTML files on your own machine, using a URL that
begins file://...

With some browsers, you can just type the file name.

Using this, you can view HTML files that were previously saved to disk
by a non-interactive browser.

> which can be set to automatically retrieve files from remote locations
> on a daily basis and which can be run under Linux?

You'll find full Perl source code for a simple non-interactive browser
starting on page 76 of:

Web Client Programming with Perl
Clinton Wong
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc 1997
ISBN: 1-56592-214-X

The remainder of the book is well worth your attention too.

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"If you don't have the source code, you are probably going to
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