Sunday, August 23, 2020

Offline Browser, Proxy Server, Cache for viewing web pages without the Internet

 The following is a work in progress to find a way to view web pages without the internet.


How to Enable Offline Browsing in Chrome - an experimental feature within Chrome and like browsers.

https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/windows-offline-browsers/ - a good list of offline browsers

https://proxy-offline-browser.com/professional/Installation.html - MM3 Web Assistant. This functions as a proxy and automatically saves the webpages that have been visited. However the free version does not handle HTTPS. The benefit is that users do not need to specify which sites to save specifically.


HTTrack Website Copier - seems to be the best so far. Will test soon.

WebCopy - similar to HTTrack but not JavaScript....



Wiki for Offline browsing

  1. Download the linux version: http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html
  2. On Linux, open a terminal and run sh /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.sh
  3. Note that the shell script is a wrapper for java -Xmx256m -jar /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.jar
  4. Path of jar file /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.jar
Or when doing this from within docker
# on host of containers
docker run -it ....alpine

# inside the container
apk add wget
wget https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/download/v4.6.5.1911/xowa_app_linux_64_v4.6.5.1911.zip
apk update
apk get openjdk11


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