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Proof-Of-Concept subproject to investigate the possibility af using Cooliris for browsing archived websites

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-firefoxProfileTemplate "path-to-profile-folder"
You may need to manually supply a proxy loginname/pw on each Capture run in this case.
Another possibility is to use the Maven2 selenium target provide in the projects pom.xml to start the selenium server.
  • Start the relevant Runner. Ensure that the browser window showing the web pages to capture is visible at all times.
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    User guide

    Guide to to view the provide web content:

    1. Extract the web content to a folder on the web server which is going to

    Generate content

    1. Download and extract the source tar
    2. Create a URLGenerator class to provide the list of URLs to capture. Examples of URLGenerators can be found in the src/main/wall/harvesters folder. All the harvesters found here are based on loading a file containing the relevant URLs and generating a url list based on this.
    3. Create a runner class, which is going to generate the Cooliris wall. See the harvestrunner package for examples.
    4. Start a Selenium server with the appropriate configuration, eg. _
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      java 
-Dhttp.proxyHost=${proxy-url} -Dhttp.proxyPort=${proxy-port}  -Dhttp.proxyUser=${proxy-loginname} -Dhttp.proxyPassword=${proxy-pw}
-jar selenium-server.jar_
      .
      I never got this to work in Ubuntu firefox, so alternatively I created a custiom profile with the relevant proxy setting and started the seleniun server with the
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    <object id="o" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="100%" width="100%">
    <param name="movie" value="http://apps.cooliris.com/embed/cooliris.swf" />
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
    <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
      src="http://apps.cooliris.com/embed/cooliris.swf"
      flashvars="feed=http://pc300.sb/dr-timeline/wall.xml"
      allowFullScreen="true"
       width="800600" height="400"
      allowScriptAccess="always">
    </embed>
    </object>