Re: agent off-line and URLs

[Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu>]

>>>>> On 08 Feb 1998 16:54:01 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

Lars> Yes, that would be nice, but I think this should be handled from
Lars> outside Gnus.  Gnus could call, like,
Lars> `browse-url-fetch-deferred' (or something), but keeping track of
Lars> URLs and stuff is something that doesn't belong in Gnus proper.

1)  Someone suggested wwwoffle, which would work, and essentially just 
    a proxie.  More than I really wanted.

2)  You're right, it should probably be external, but its too small
    really to distribute by itself (I wrote it yesterday):

(defun my-browse-and-cache (URL) 
  "browser the URL using netscape if online, else store it in *WWW-cache*"
  (interactive)
  (if (string-equal (second gnus-agent-mode-status) " Plugged")
      (browse-url-netscape URL)
    (save-excursion
	(set-buffer "*WWW-cache*")
	(end-of-buffer)
	(let ((p (point)))
	  (insert (format "(browse-url-netscape \"%s\")\n" URL))
	  (gnus-article-add-button p (point-max) 'browse-url-netscape URL)
	))))


Granted, I made one mistake I haven't fixed where I assume set-buffer
creates the buffer (it doesn't, I just noticed this morning) and I
call netscape's function call rather than doing a, um, (funcall)
directly...

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