R2024b: documentation installed locally - how can I bookmark help pages?

In R2024b, Matlab displays the documentation in the system web browser, without customization options in Windows.

Executing say

doc toc

opens the html page from the locally installed documentation, e.g.

http://127.0.0.1:58378/static/help/matlab/ref/toc.html?searchPort=58378

The port number (58378 above) seems to be randomly generated and is valid only as long as the current Matlab instance is running, so bookmarking the page for a future Matlab session is useless as the bookmark won't contain the new port number.

I suspect that there are no bookmark related problems with web documentation. Is that correct?

And is there a way to somehow bookmark local doc pages, preferably accessible as well when Matlab is not running?

[Andres]

Btw, when I open the file toc.html directly from [docroot]/matlab/ref/ in any of my browsers, I observe display problems with the page flickering and reloading infinitely.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Can you go to your router settings and assign your computer a static IP address? You should be able to.

[Walter Roberson]

the ip address is static as 127.0.0.1. the port number is variable

[Andres]

Correct, 127.0.0.1 is just localhost. One could however configure port fowarding on localhost connecting to the variable port of Matlab's local documentation service (58378 in my example above) once you know that number with some fixed listenport with netsh on Windows. Then you could save the local bookmarks using the fixed listenport, and they would work while the Matlab instance is running.

You would need to delete the port forwarding rule when closing Matlab. Port forwarding with netsh would require administrator rights. Cumbersome.