> hi xavier, thanks for the reply. okay, so to verify 
> what you have said, if i have a project 'foobar' with 
> one url 'www.foo.com/bar/index.html' and i add one 
> custom filter '-www.foo.com/bar/*', then basically 
> nothing gets downloaded at all? if this is so, then i 
> think you have answered my question: httrack's default 
> behavior when you remove all filters (built-in + 
> custom) is to exclude everything.

no - if you left the custom filter empty, then it will
only download the default files... which includes HTML
related documents. I don't know what other default
documents are also downloaded (Xavier, is there a list
you can give out?).