On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Damien Keown wrote:
> At 16:46 27/03/96 +0000, Mr C A Rusbridge wrote:
>
> >Mirroring a cluster of web pages (eg an e-journal) is a labour-intensive
> >process if you have to change all the URLs which refer to other pages in
> >the cluster. There must surely be scripts to do this. Any suggestions
> >out there?
>
> There's no need to change anything. So long as the links call local html
> files, they will work at the mirrored site automatically without any
> alteration.
That's if they are relative e.g. <A HREF="dir/wibble.html"> as opposed to
absolute e.g. <A HREF="http://lethal.ac.uk/boomerang/backwards.html">, I
think (?). However, a script to change the links is relatively
straightforward; once you've worked out the base URL, you just write
something that removes it and the preceeding http:// from the <A HREF="">
tags where it exists.
As for mirroring software, there are bits of freeware that apparently can
help with this (though haven't yet looked heavily into it); good things
heard about something called Webcopy. I either do it by hand (as all have
mirrored so far are small Web-based resources with no default directory
files), or by using the Autosurf and caching manager functions in the
wonderful NCSA Mosaic 2.0 (PC-based browser for Windows 95/32 bit Windows
3.11), which are very useful for controlling the depth/width of Web resource
auto-caching.
Ciao,
John
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