[Rabbit-proxy-development] Caching for offline browsing

[Michael V. <mi...@vo...>]

Hello,

I was looking around for a proxy server implemented in Java, as basis
for an experimental project. RabbIT seems to be the most actively
developed, as far as I could find at least -- so first of all,
congratulations on a great project! How are you all using it? As a
"classic" proxy, like Squid etc.? I am interested in use it for
building a proxy server that would run locally on workstations, mostly
laptops that are frequently offline (network disconnected).

How could we get RabbIT to cache all visited pages for this purpose,
even if the server (or upstream proxy) say they can/should not??=20
Based on that base functionality (which, to be honest, I was hoping to
find, not implement), I am thinking about some extensions, such as
"queuing" requests for not-yet-cached pages requested during offline
operation, then "batch-prefetching" when online, and some more ideas
in that direction... interested?

BTW: The classic http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/ has such
offline functionality, but I was hoping to find something in Java to
extend it more quickly for a POC... At
http://www.proxy-offline-browser.com/ there is something like that
too, but commercial, without sources. The
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/wbi/ could probably also be used as
basis for stuff like this, but I haven't looked more closely yet
mostly because of the license. Maybe somebody here has seen other
things in this direction?

Regards,
Michael

PS: Some quick feedback on the built-in GUI that may be of interest: I
at first kept trying all sorts of things with http://localhost:9666/
until I realized that it had to be http://MYMACHINENAME:9666 - maybe
the doc could state this more clearly, or even better, instead of the
error message that currently shows up when accessing as localhost it
could say (or even just redirect?!) to use the real hostname? Also,
minor really, the LogRotator link on top goes "Couldnt find
class:rabbit.meta.LogRotator, java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
rabbit.meta.LogRotator" and Config says "File 'config\index.html' not
found." (All this was on Rabbit 3.0.)