App: Webvac
Developer: ZHENG WANG
Genres: Utilities, Developer Tools

Webvac is a small utility that allows entire web page hierarchies to be downloaded automatically. The pages will thereby be modified in such a way that they can then be viewed off-line. It allows you to download a World Wide website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. Webvac arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. Webvac can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. Webvac is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

Main Features

Various strong URL filters to restrict the downloads to only the desired files or file types. Among the filters, a pattern matching filter which supports Perl like regular expressions and also standard DOS like patterns.

Automatic rebuilding of the low-cost dedicated servers file system hierarchy on the client side (i.e. files will not be downloaded into one common directory, but the server's directory tree will be recreated if possible).

Multithreaded. More than one connection to a server can be opened at a time, which can reduce download times by a factor of 10 or more as compared to traditional single-connection download programs.

Adapted to special cases where the server's file system has less limitations in file naming than the local machine. The names of the downloaded files will be shortened as necessary and stripped of characters that are illegal in the local filesystem.

Limited capability to correct broken HTML pages, so that the downloaded copies might work better than the original pages.

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