# Installer wwwoffle avec Homebrew

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de wwwoffle pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:wwwoffle
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wwwoffle
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:wwwoffle
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.9j
- **Résumé source:** Better browsing for computers with intermittent connections
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- wwwoffle (alias)
- wwwoffle-fsck (alias)
- wwwoffle-gunzip (alias)
- wwwoffle-gzip (alias)
- wwwoffle-hash (alias)
- wwwoffle-ls (alias)
- wwwoffle-mv (alias)
- wwwoffle-read (alias)
- wwwoffle-rm (alias)
- wwwoffle-tools (alias)
- wwwoffle-write (alias)
- wwwoffled (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.9j
## Historique du projet et usages

WWWOFFLE, the World Wide Web Offline Explorer, is a proxy server for intermittent Internet links. It belongs to the dial-up and metered-connectivity era: users browse through a local proxy, keep cached pages, queue missing pages while offline, and fetch them when online.

### Historique du projet

Andrew M. Bishop's official site documents WWWOFFLE from beta 0.9 in January 1997 through the long-lived 2.9 series. The program was designed around a local proxy daemon, wwwoffled, with command-line and browser-based controls for switching online, offline, and autodial status.

By version 2.9j in 2016, maintenance focused on bug fixes, TLS-related improvements, gzip/chunked-transfer compatibility, certificate changes, and documentation updates. The official release policy notes that announcement and user mailing lists were discontinued at the end of 2012 because releases had become infrequent.

### Historique d'adoption

WWWOFFLE was useful when Internet access was slow, unreliable, expensive, or not always on. Its official feature list reads like a history of early web constraints: HTTP, FTP, and finger caching; scheduled and recursive retrieval; monitoring pages for changes; proxy authentication; censoring headers; and offline indexes of pages waiting to be fetched.

Although the need for offline web proxies declined as broadband became normal, WWWOFFLE remained packaged because it filled a precise Unix niche: a transparent, scriptable cache for controlled browsing environments, disconnected systems, and users who wanted explicit ownership of web retrieval.

### Modes d'utilisation

A typical setup runs wwwoffled as a local proxy, configures the browser to use it, and then toggles the daemon between online and offline modes. While online, pages can be cached or conditionally refreshed; while offline, unavailable URLs can be queued for the next connection.

Administrators can drive the tool from the command line or through its proxy management pages. The same configuration controls access restrictions, cache policy, recursive fetch behavior, proxy chaining, authentication handling, and maintenance of the cache indexes.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

WWWOFFLE is package-nerd significant because it preserves a whole style of network computing that modern always-online software mostly forgot. It is not just a cache; it is a deliberate offline-first web workflow exposed as a Unix daemon plus small maintenance tools.

### Chronologie

- 1997-01-11: Beta version 0.9 released.
- 1997-01-25: Version 1.0 released.
- 2000-11-18: Version 2.6 released.
- 2006-04-02: Version 2.9 released.
- 2012: Announcement and user mailing lists discontinued at year end.
- 2016-03-23: Version 2.9j released.
- 2014 onward: Direct Subversion repository access used to reduce the need for intermediate releases.

### Related projects

- WWWOFFLE is related to web proxy caches, recursive web fetchers, dial-on-demand networking setups, and Unix proxy daemons used to make browser access predictable under intermittent connectivity.

### Sources

- <https://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/>
- <https://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/FAQ.html>
- <https://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/README>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf

## Credential files

- Unix: /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/wwwoffle.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/wwwoffle.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph