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Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: need for 'symbolic links' WITHIN lynx
From: |
David Woolley |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: need for 'symbolic links' WITHIN lynx |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:03:05 +0100 (BST) |
> I download a huge tree of .html-files, consisting
> of a java-tutorial from sun. Unfortunately,
> some of the links (all of those that
> refer to the "api") point to the sun www-site
> ON THE WEB -- rather than to a relative
> location (which works out to be on my
> machine, where I have downloaded the tree
> to). (All the others, to the text itself, work fine, are relative)
You obviously used the wrong tool. wget will relativise links for you
whilst grabbing a site.
> Would be neat if lynx had "symbolic links",
> like bsd-unix: one of those, pointing at sun's site,
> would translate to my machine (the names are parallel).
Except that you can convert as you retrieve if you use a designed for
the purpose web grabbing tool, like wget, dynamic fixups can be done by
running a local proxy. You can also make it cache. The CERN one should
do fine for this job.
> Would of course be neat if here LOCALLY
> via my os (solaris) I could make ONE symbolic
> link for "http://...sun.com" and have it point
> to my disk. But don't work that way, nosireee.
CERN configuration directive:
Pass http://...sun.com/* /-----/....sun.com/*
>
> Here are the notes I prepared for sending this email
> to lynx-dev:
>
>
> To avoid need to HACK the java-tutorial .html-files:
> On the NET, the api-dir is at:
> http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/api/
> On MY machine (having unzipped the jdk-sources) the api-dir is at:
> localhost:///home/from_netcom-dir3/java-stuff/jdk1.1.4/docs/api/
Pass http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1/1/api/*
/home/from_netcom-dir3/java-stuff/jdk1.1.4/docs/api/*
or even run it as a true caching proxy.
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