# dillo-history

Persistent history saving for [Dillo][].

This project contains:
- A patch for dillo to make it save each resource from its cache to disk, and record entries in a history file.
- A plugin for dillo to view the history file and its entries.

The history file is `~/.dillo/history.txt` and its format is TSV. Each entry contains a timestamp, SHA256 content hash, and URL.

The plugin serves requests of the form `history:[<limit>][/<pattern>]` where `<limit>` is the number of entries to show (default is 35) and `<pattern>` is a regex to grep for the history files (for URL, hash, and/or timestamp) (default is to show all entries).

## Screenshot

![dillo-history-screenshot.png](&REcIx+kvUF2vQt0PDyb49f2q4qDEZ08b07hlskwScMI=.sha256 "Screenshot showing dillo-history)

The content hashes are in [SSB blob format][ssb links]: `&XXX.sha256`) where XXX is the content hash in base64. Their contents are saved as files in [SSB's blob store][ssb-blobs] at `~/.ssb/blobs/sha256/XX/XXXX...` where `XXXXX...` is the content hash in hexadecimal, lowercase.

[Dillo]: https://www.dillo.org/
[ssb links]: https://github.com/ssbc/docs/blob/master/ssb/linking.md
[ssb-blobs]: https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-blobs

## Install

Install the plugin with `make install && dpidc stop`.
Install the patch by downloading Dillo's source code, applying the patch and compiling dillo.

## License

MIT