| I much appreciate this piece of software. It has made
my life so much better! I truly feel empowered to
gather information now. Thanks for your work.
I think I have found a bug in the RC-10 release. Maybe
you know about it already. Just to be on the safe
side,
I will report it.
I downloaded a particular URL using two versions of
WinHTTrack (RC-4 and RC-10). Here are log file
results:
HTTrack3.00-RC-4 reported:
HTTrack mirror complete in 4 minutes 16 seconds : 44
links scanned, 43 files written (494010 bytes overall)
[509321 bytes received at 1989 bytes/sec]
(33 errors, 0 warnings, 1 messages)
HTTrack3.00-RC-10 reported:
HTTrack mirror complete in 9 minutes 27 seconds : 44
links scanned, 28 files written (369839 bytes overall)
[509322 bytes received at 898 bytes/sec]
(No errors, 0 warnings, 1 messages)
I think there were about 33 directories excluded by
robots.txt, so that may explain the 33 errors by
RC-4. There were no other errors as far as I can see
in terms of downloading. Oddly, RC-10, although it
reported the same directories being excluded under
robots.txt, it did not list them as errors.
But what is stranger still is that RC-4 reported that
43 files were written, and RC-10 reported that 28 files
were written. I went to look at the directories made
by both and they are IDENTICAL -- same number of files
and the same number of bytes. In fact, the RC-4
version
was correct - the operating system reported 43 files in
the mirror subdirectory. This suggests that RC-10 has
introduced a bug into the "files written" counting
feature.
I hope this bug does not affect the functionality of
the mirror otherwise. I don't think it does; my test
showed that the resulting download was identical in
essential respects to the RC-4 version's download.
David G. | |