Return-Path: <deadmail>
Received: from   [192.168.1.22]) by 
 mail. (Weasel v1.20) for <deadmail>; 
 20 Mar 2001 01:00:40 
From: "Digest" <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" <deadmail>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2001 01:00:40 +1100 (EDT)
Reply-To: "OS2GenAu" <deadmail>
Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: CASMailer 1.0 for OS/2 Warp PPC 5.05
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: OS/2 GenAu Digest No.5
Message-ID: <200103170000.000029G6atmail.>

Date:- 20 March 2001

1) Daryl Pilkington <u3232athome.dialix dot com>
     Re: [os2genau] Web Mirror
2) Ian Manners <deadmail>
     Re: [os2genau] Web Mirror

1====================================
Hi Ian,
I'm evaluating delegate.
I'm having a few problems with it, possibly wet-ware, (user bit wet
behind the ears).
The documentation is written by heavy-duty network nerds, (no offence
meant), people who don't have a PHD in networking could find it a bit
heavy-going to get it set-up.

I can get http working, but a caching DNS proxy seems to die after a
while.
Could be iPrimus though, <grin>.

I'd be interested about periodic pulling of sites.

Internet Gate & Maccasoft in general are a joke, I've never received
responses from them when I've emailed.

Use wget as a site puller?

I can sort of see how this could be done, but its like having the raw
ingredients for a gourmet meal, without the cookbook, they are useless.

Some worked examples of using these solutions would be A Good Thing.

Perhaps I'll email the authors & see what can be done.

Can you help with some worked solutions Ian?

Ian Manners wrote:
> 
> Hi Ed
> 
> >   Is anyone else using Web mirror?
> 
> Use to, until I discovered wget.
> 
> >  My experiments with Web Mirror from www.maccasoft dot com - the people
> >who also produce Internet gate, haven't gone to well. This program can
> >pre-fetch complete websites to your disk and act like a proxy to serve
> >them to your browser, or if you run a LAN, to the other PCs on the LAN
> >- Licence allowing.
> 
> I've never tried that bit but I can think of better programs, like squid.
> 
> >  Although I can get the program to pre-load the pages to my firewall
> >PC. The loading of these pages and related graphics/pages varies from
> >immediate to not successful - 404 error. The program should also pass
> >requests through for sites it hasn't pre-loaded, although I have
> >configured this it doesn't seem to work.I know I'm only using the demo
> >version which is limited to 150 objects per web site, however this does
> >not equate to what is happening.
> 
> I have the registered version, and I've just tried setting it up as
> a local proxy but with the same results as you on some sites, it
> seems to work only for pure HTML sites, and not on anything
> that seems to us ASP, or JAVA, must have something to do with
> the calls it makes to the websites.
> 
> >  At the moment I would not buy this program. As far as I can see I have
> >configured the program correctly, which is why I am asking if anyone
> >else on the list uses the product and if they have experienced the same
> >problems.
> 
> >  I'm also open to suggestions of other "pre-fetching" proxy programs
> >for OS/2 if anyone has one they can recommend.
> 
> tproxy.zip
> delegate6.1.12-os2.zip
> 
> http://www.os2site dot com/sw/internet/proxy/
> 
> I only refer to my website as other URL's escape me, I'm
> also sure there must be a more upto date version of
> delegate at the website you should find in the doc's
> 
> Cheers
> Ian B Manners
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> To Subscribe/Unsubscribe please go to http://www.os2site.com/list/
> ==============================================

-- 
Regards, 

Daryl  Pilkington 

//// The PC Therapist, Business Computing Integration
O<O  AUSTRALIA
\_/
<O>  OS/2 Warp, Redhat Linux, DB2
     IBM Certified Systems Expert

        email: darylpatpc-therapist dot com dot au
          ICQ: 91914134
          Tel: +61-2-8902-1300
          Mob: +61-425-251-300
      Mob SMS: 0425251300.0000atorangenet dot com dot au
               (120 characters max, send no carriage returns)

2====================================
Hi Daryl & Ed

>I'm evaluating delegate.

I'll send you some config files, though it will be later in the week,
I'm a bit tied up at present in Perth

>I can get http working, but a caching DNS proxy seems to die after a
>while. Could be iPrimus though, <grin>.

I vagly remember someone else had this problem.

>I'd be interested about periodic pulling of sites.

I think you would probably have to use a small rexx script
combined with something like CRON, which is what I use on all
the OS/2 servers.

There must be a way to refresh the cache with an update cache
contents command but I'm away from the docs.

>Internet Gate & Maccasoft in general are a joke, I've never
>received responses from them when I've emailed.

I've not sure why I registered WebMirror, it had a bad habit
of crashing on me, I havent really used it since until the other
night, or was that last night, its all a blur....

>Use wget as a site puller?

use the -m mirror switch, yes, that would work, with
a schedular like CRON.

>I can sort of see how this could be done, but its like having the raw
>ingredients for a gourmet meal, without the cookbook, they are useless.

>Some worked examples of using these solutions would be A Good Thing.
>Perhaps I'll email the authors & see what can be done.
>Can you help with some worked solutions Ian?

Yes, when I'm back in the land of the sane.

Cheers
Ian Manners

End====================================
