[Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis

[Ben Davidson]

Frank,

I found a checkbox when I was looking around in there that allowed you to
specify that you only wanted pages on that particular domain archived.

Ben


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Schaap" <architext at fragment.nl>
To: <air-l at aoir.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis


> Robin helpfully contributed:
> > Not so deep in IE5:
>
> > Add the page to Favorites.
> > Open Organize Favorites.
> > Select the page you wish to archive.
> > Check "Make available offline"
> > Open Properties -> Download, and make your choices: links deep, limit
> > space, even -> Advanced: images, etc. In Properties -> Schedule you may,
> > well of course, schedule.
>
> Ehm, this doesn't do what I want it to do... Yes, you can set it to
archive
> up to 3 links deep, but there's no option of containing that link depth to
> the domain the site is residing on, so IE will actually archive ALL pages
3
> links deep regardless of the server they're residing on.
>
> (Right now IE has been working for about 30 minutes, archiving only 1
> homepage because it goes out all over the web, including to the
> microsoft.com site to download pages linked from that site...)
>
> Okay, maybe I wasn't all that clear on how I want to archive the sites. I
> actually want to archive homepages, starting with their 'entry' or 'index'
> page and _all_ underlying pages and directories that are an integral part
of
> that homepage. That means I _don't_ want to archive external links to
other
> domains/servers.
>
> (ah, IE is finished now... but, instead of saving those websites in any
sort
> of recognizable form, it dumps everything in the IE cache with
> unrecognizable names, so in order to actually view the archived sites, you
> will _have_ to use IE.)
>
> Thanks for the help/tips anyway, but it seems to rule out IE for my
> purposes.
>
> Frank.
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