fake URL extension for Firefox

[gusl]

From CMU, I can access URLs that I can't from home (e.g. http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/33/3/325.pdf ). Sometimes, Firefox will reload when I'm home, losing the information. I'd like to be able to save the files onto my machine, and recognize the URL as that file (essentially a permanent cache). Doesn't Firefox have a lookup table that it uses for string replacement before sending the URL to nameserver? If so, I could add an entry pointing to the URL referring to my local file.

Better yet, find a way to train Firefox on which files are "gated", so that it knows to keep them in the cache forever, unless the user demands otherwise (i.e. answers yes to "Are you sure?").

Comments

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

The old-school way is to run Squid. But the new-school way is "what? When am I ever offline? It's not like I'm on fucking dialup or whatever. Geez."

Is there not a machine at CMU you can ssh to? If there is, you can do

ssh -NnfD 8888 gustavo@loginserver

and set your SOCKS proxy to localhost:8888. Which you should be doing anyway, because some day you'll be on a wireless network and some jerk will be sniffing your traffic and decide that your sessions are his. (Cough.)

[demarko (from livejournal.com)]

or VPN? I think that's the offered solution by the library

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

Sure, a VPN would be fine if one exists. I use the ssh+SOCKS method for my personal traffic rather than bother to set up something more VPNy.

[selfishgene.livejournal.com]

You can use Scrapbook add-on to capture pages of a site, or the whole site (specify link depth and filter). You can then access them via the Scrapbook sidebar.
The only drawback seems to be, you can't tell it to always capture latest content from a specific page.