| | Dear Xavier,
When I found WinHTTrack, I deleted Teleport Pro within a few
days, :-) as WinHTTrack is an excellent piece of software!
However, if I may have note a few problems I ran into so
far...
I'd like to be able to store the default settings, those
that I have once set in the "Set options" submenu. Now I
have to set the options again and again, although I have
found out long ago what the best settings are for my needs.
I found that the program is unable to mirror links that are
not inside quotation marks, like (A HREF=blabla)blabla(/A)
(angle brackets replaced with round parentheses...).
(Certainly, this is against the standards, still, I'd like
to be able to mirror such sites!) Perhaps, a solution would
be to accept such links and detect the end of the target URL
by searching for the first closing angle bracket after the
equation mark.
Today, I found a (Hungarian) site that uses UTF-8 encoding.
(Again, what a stupid thing to do, instead of using the
proper ISO-8859-x code page; ISO-8859-2 in Hungary!) All
links, including the names of downloadable files (JPEG
pictures, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents) are encoded
with UTF-8 and some names _do_ include national accented
characters. The result is a catastrophe: now I have files on
my hard disk that I cannot open, copy, rename or delete
using their original, long names (only the short names) as
they contain UTF-8-style weird double characters (e.g. 0xC3
0xA1 for รก, a with a single accent). Also, many of these
mirrored files contain a standard "Error 404" page;
apparently, the program couldn't download them properly. It
would be nice, if the program could convert UTF-8 encoded
characters into a ISO-8859-x code page specified by the
user.
Thank you for your reply in advance and I wish you and your
co-programmers further good luck with your project.
Joe Forster/STA
sta@c64.org | |
