The proxy offline browser archives all websites you have visited online. Offline each page is available with its original URL. There is no difference between surfing in the internet or archive. You can even use your bookmarks offline. This proxy offline browser is an ideal addition to every browser!

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Surf Mode Cache Archive Marker Frett Filter HTTP protocol HTTPS protocol FTP protocol In a surf set you can summarize different parameters and save these with a name. When you are surfing you can select between the different surf sets. Every surf set has a unique name. Control keys of the dialog have the following functions: New Create a new Surf Set. Rename Assignment of a new name. Delete Delete the displayed Surf Set. Help Displays the corresponding description at the browser. Note: If the description isn't displayed, then you enter the browser in Options/General/Browser. Store Stores revised Surf Set permanently. At the next start, the adjust settings are used again. Apply Apply revised Surf Set temporarily. Reject Changes are not taken. Cancel Changes are not taken. The dialog is closed. # Surf Mode The surf mode determines where the resources are loaded from, internet or cache archive. With reuse you can change the refresh time provided by the publisher of the resource. ## Offline Pages are requested with their URL from the local cache archive in the offline mode. ## Online Online mode corresponds with normal browsing but available files in the cache archive can be re-used. ### Re-use At HTML files and other resources e.g. pictures the re-use can be adjusted in many ways. With re-use you can change the refresh time provided by the publisher of the resource. Never new request Files available locally will never be requested again from the internet. Time period: 1 minute, ..., 1 month The locally available files are used in the adjusted time period. The optimal setting depends on the application. With a daily newspaper, time of expiry should not be set to more than one day, for example 12 hours. This has in general proved to be a favorable setting. Always new request In this mode the respective files are always requested as new from the internet. ### Server was unable A server isn't reachable and the called file locally available, so will be used with the local file. This corresponds to the setting never new for the re-use. # Cache Archive ## Define folder The whole WebAssistants cache consists of folders (specified by topics) where the resources of the internet can be filed. The cache archive can get arbitrarily large (except for restrictions of the operating system). It is necessary to use one cache archive at least. The left column lists the enabled cache archives of the displayed surf set. All other cache archives are listed in the right column. At this all entries written in grey aren't used in any surf set. With the following buttons you can manage the archives: Add .... Adds a further folder to enabled cache archives. >> or << Moves active to deactive cache archive or reversed. Delete Deletes a disabled cache archive displayed in grey. The folder and the contained resources aren't deleted in the file system. A folder must have read & write access in the column of active cache archives. All other folders have only read access. When you are surfing online the HTML pages and other resources are saved in the folder with write access. In the example above, four folders are given: The folder /cache/ and three folders specified by subject (hobby, finance, job). By exchanging the entries you can compile any number of specific folders, which can also be stored on another storage device, like CD ROM. If you assign several topic specific surf sets with only one directory, then you can select between these topics by browsing. Moreover, the WebAssistant also can be started from a CD ROM. It is not necessary to install the program on a hard disk! Only a virtual machine must have been installed on the computer or in the network. Note: You reach a higher flexibility by the separation from program folder and cache archive as well as use of several archives. The correct processing of very long URLs in addition requires, that at least 230 characters can be used for the path and the file name with the WebAssistant. Therefore use only folders for the cache archives which are located on partition level (Root), please. The maximum path name for this shouldn't be greater than 20 characters. Very long URLs are often used for advertising. You also can be filter the advertising with Surf Set/URL Filter. Delete of files with long pathnames Archives don't correspond to the above for requirement perhaps with the Microsoft File Explorer deleting isn't possible. You then must use the DOS-Console to delete files. You, for example, delete an archived domain with the following commands: At first you change to the cache archives concerned, e.g. MM3-WebAssistantProfessional\cache\ `cd MM3-WebAssistantProfessional\cache\` Then you delete the domain, e.q. xxx `rmdir xxx /s /q` with: `xxx` - domain to be deleted /`s` - Delete all included files and folders /`q` - Without confirmation One cache archive may not contain any other cache archives! For example the following structure should be avoided: 1. Archive: /cache/ 2. Archive: /cache/Hobby/ ## Web pages storing and compressing At activation of the option Store resources the files are put down in the directory with access to write. Text files can be compressed with compress. # Marker Efficient use of the archive by marking and highlighting words. ## Marking locally available URL All links are marked green to available resources in the cache archive during surfing. So you get a fast summary of all resources, are already archived and thus locally available. The marking can be used in the mode offline and in the mode online. The marking per default is green or can be defined with a stylesheet. ### Offline Mode Only the locally available resources can be shown in this mode. Therefore the markings simplify surfing considerably. Are you interested in the contents of not available resources? There are two possibilities for this: Change to the on-line mode. Collect the not available URLs at first The collection is carried out via the fault message 404 File Not Found: Manual about the link Add URL History Any added URL is collected here. Automatically about the protocol function Options/General/URL History/Surf Mode Offline/Any not found URL. In this case every URL is collected. ### Online Mode The marking shows to you, which resources you have already visited. This completes the history function of the browser. ## Highlighting changes in the online mode If you are interested in the differences in a page since the last archiving, then you activate the function. When surfing in the on-line mode newly available texts are then marked. The marking per default is blue or can be defined over a style sheet. # Frett Starting from the HTML page currently visible, the Frett (Ferret) traces additional links. These resources can already be used from the cache archives continued browsing. However, this takes up a large proportion of bandwidth and memory space. Depending on the application the links to be retrieved can be specified as follows: ## Frett traces following links ### Meaning of depth: Depth 0 Frett is deactivated. Depth 1 Current page is loaded completely with all resources even after the page was already left. Depth 2 All files referenced by links are loaded. A HTML page is loaded with all resources. Depth 3 and further All files referenced by links as in depth 2 are loaded. A HTML page is loaded with all resources. All further depths corresponding. ### Within the structure in actual directory and subdirectories only within subdomain only within domain only all domains ### HTML files and following types all images PDF files ZIP files # Filter ## URL Filter Resources not relevant to you can be filtered. So no cost result for data transmission, time and memory space. For automated filtering, restrictive operation has been chosen to make sure you are not denied contents you may find interesting. According to our analysis it may make sense not to select the general browser setting, not to load images. We would rather advise to specify subdirectories and subdomains from which GIF images must not be loaded. If there are contents of entire domains or subdomains you are not interested in, you can also specify these. The WebAssistant can be used for many different purposes. It is difficult therefore to give any specific recommendations for filter settings. Possible applications may concern family filters or ad filters. For advertising purposes, GIF images are often loaded from specific subdirectories (e.g. advertising, adverts, ads) or other files from specific subdomains (e.g. ad.). The filter setting prevents files to be loaded from the areas specified. To configurate your application area, take note of the areas from which undesired files are loaded and specify these as filters. Wouldn't you like to load any URL which contain a sub-folder with the character string /ad/ for example? Please, enter this in the field sub-folder. Would you like filter several subdirectories then you indicate this in a new line (according to /advertising/) ### Test After the above configuration of the filter you call the page with the URL http://www.mm3tools.com/ad/. You get then following HTML page: ### Note: Generally you don't receive this detailed display. But the areas to be filtered in a HTML page are indicated as not available. This is dependent on your browser and the configuration. ### Please note: Providing a large variety of options, the WebAssistant has not been conceived as an ads filter. It must also be noted that advertising is a considerable driving force for the development and maintenance of many products and does provide information. We have therefore refrained from a pre-configuration as an ad blocker. This is also why the program has no option to use image sizes for filtering: These same sizes are sometimes used to serve the offer. Filtering in this respect will therefore not contribute to a more efficient use of the internet. ## Session Filter To identify users, some providers use temporary identifiers in the URL. If an archive is used, these sites can therefore not be used to full extent. In simple cases WebAssistant recognises this and deletes the session identifier (it generates identifiers that can be re-used). For this, activate the field session . All characters of a subdirectory or a file are eliminated at the storage (storage) in the specified domain, which are on the the right or left of specified string. Example for a URL with a session identifier: http://www.mm3tools.de/abs376567568566789769/image.gif If the session information was the string which follows the character string abs, then the filtration would be possible with the filter www.mm3tools.de abs. The URL is then mapped internally on http://www.mm3tools.de/abs/image.gif. The name of the domain must not be specified completely it also can be specified by some characters. The domain would for example be filtered also at the following details: mm3tools.de mm3 tools The domains which also contain these characters also would be however filtered from here. # HTTP protocol The browser communicates with a web server via the HTTP protocol usually. Sometimes a proxy in addition is still used by your provider or local net. ## Proxy A proxy inserted behind the WebAssistant can be specified here. ## HTTP Protocol Header The fastest data transmission is obtained with protocol HTTP 1.1. This is supported by the WebAssistant. The browser should also be configured with this option (see Browser Proxy Configuration). The activation is specific of the browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer Tools/Internet options/Extend/Parameters for HTTP 1.1 Netscape (Mozilla) Edit/Preferences/Advanced/HTTP connections Opera File/Preferences.../Network/Proxy servers You can thus restrict the process of passing data on your browsing habits. ### Reference Standard setting causes the browser to transmits the present URL (reference) to the HTTP server by requesting another URL. This setting can be kept, or a reference can only be transmitted if it is in the same domain. ### Browser name (User-Agent) At standard setting, the browser will transmits its name to the HTTP server. This setting can be kept, or you can append an additional name. ### Cookie If the options is activated, cookies will be transmitted to the browser respectively to the server. # HTTPS protocol ## Proxy A proxy inserted behind the WebAssistant can be specified here. ## HTTPS Activation With the HTTPS protocol, transferring as encoded files are stored as decoded files! If you do not activate this function, the WebAssistant only can pass and not revise the data in any way. For complete deactivation switch off the HTTPS proxy in the browser (see Browser Proxy Configuration). We recommend this for transmission of confidential data. You have activated the function and start an URL with "https://" this is transformed to "http://mywebassistant.net.". Two procedures are used for it. ## Transformation by SSL server SSL server uses per default the port 8888 on the local computer (IP 127.0.0.1). If this port is already busy, the port number has to be changed. A security note of the browser signals the respectively first transformation with the SSL server of a URL from a domain. The security notes are reduced, if the certificate "MM3-WebAssistant" is installed. The certificate can be installed by every note of the browser. ## Transformation by character substitution Every URL is transformed in a HTML page which starts with the string "https://". This option is efficient, but not possible for all pages. ### Note: The implementation of the protocol consists only of a subset. Therefore some HTML pages cannot be displayed. # FTP protocol FTP protocol is used to download big files usually. Sometimes a proxy in addition is still used by your provider or local net. ## Proxy A proxy inserted behind the WebAssistant can be specified here. ## Password for anonymous login Qualifier "MM3-WebAssistant@" E-mail address Individual qualifier
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