| | Hi, I researched my specific issue a bit more. This information is intended to
help make your product better. I'm trying to mirror www.educator.com. The
problem is that they pass variables to a Flash application which calculates
paths to XML files, then the XML files contain path fragments used to
calculate paths to the Flash videos. Developing a general heuristic to
address this issue would be difficult. However, maybe you could develop a
wizard that lets a user help HTTrack figure out what to do.
Here's an example. You need to be a paid member to access the site's pages,
however the Flash videos are downloadable if you know the URLs.
(1) This PHP loads a Flash application and passes variables "course" and
"lecture".
URL:
<http://www.educator.com/learn/chemistry/goldwhite/states-of-matter-intermolecular-forces-gases-and-gas-laws.php>
CODE SNIPPET:
<embed src="/media/educator.swf"
id="educator"
quality="high"
menu="false"
bgcolor="#000000"
name="educator"
allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
pluginspage=http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
allowfullscreen="true"
wmode="transparent"
flashvars="course=chemistry/goldwhite&lecture=Chem-1-12"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
align="middle"
height="375"
width="1150">
(2) The Flash application calculates a path to an XML file.
<http://www.educator.com/media/x-m-l/chemistry/goldwhite/Chem-1-12.xml>
(3) The XML file contains path fragments to the Flash videos for the camera,
tablet and examples.
<flv url=http://www.educator.com/media/lec/learn/chemistry-goldwhite/
main="Chem-1-12-Tablet-Lec.flv" side="Chem-1-12-Cam-Lec.flv" prof="Professor
Goldwhite"/>
<img url="/media/ss/chemistry/cxt/" main="ct/Chem-1-12-0.jpg"
side="goldwhite/Chem-1-12-0.jpg"/>
<examples>
<flv url=http://www.educator.com/media/ex/chemistry/
main="Chem-1-12-Tablet-Ex1.flv" side="Chem-1-12-Cam-Ex1.flv" prof="Professor
Goldwhite"/>
<flv url=http://www.educator.com/media/ex/chemistry/
main="Chem-1-12-Tablet-Ex2.flv" side="Chem-1-12-Cam-Ex2.flv" prof="Professor
Goldwhite"/>
</examples>
(4) Finally, the URLs to the Flash videos.
<http://www.educator.com/media/lec/learn/chemistry-goldwhite/Chem-1-12-Cam-Lec.flv>
<http://www.educator.com/media/lec/learn/chemistry-goldwhite/Chem-1-12-Tablet-Lec.flv>
<http://www.educator.com/media/ex/chemistry/Chem-1-12-Cam-Ex1.flv>
<http://www.educator.com/media/ex/chemistry/Chem-1-12-Tablet-Ex1.flv>
<http://www.educator.com/media/ex/chemistry/Chem-1-12-Cam-Ex2.flv>
<http://www.educator.com/media/ex/chemistry/Chem-1-12-Tablet-Ex2.flv>
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