wget. Or any other web scraper/spider. We do exactly that for our sales guys when they're going somewhere and know they won't have an internet connection, so they can still have our website available.
cheers, barneyb On 11/11/05, Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, all. I am preparing for some hypothetical scenarios. Under one, > my web host stops supporting ColdFusion, and I have to keep hosting my > site there. Obviously, there is no way around the fact that some of the > functionality cannot be preserved without serious work. However, I am > looking at a stop-gap measure that would provide a static snapshot of > the site (where that made sense). Now, putting aside the fact that this > is a terrible scenario, let's assume that this is something I want to > and have to do: does anyone know of a tool that would do this? > > Specifically, let's say I have (1) an About Us section that is all HTML > except for ColdFusion code that pulls the names and numbers of staff > from a database and displays it on the phone list; (2) a Products > section that includes a database-driven list of products and a details > template that generates one a fully detailed page on one product as > specified in by a URL variable; and (3) a form for running Verity > searches on a directory full of Word documents. > > Obviously, I am up the creek on the search (number 3): you can't make > that from static pages. But for numbers 1 and 2, the end-result--even > under ColdFusion--is all HTML and JavaScript anyway. The tool I am > imagining would browse the site, take HTML snapshots of the pages as > they exist, and save them into the appropriate folder structure. Then I > could drop this data onto my web server and have a working site. > Certainly, I wouldn't be able to maintain it through database changes > and all, but this is a last-ditch, stop-gap measure, so that luxury is > unaffordable. > > Thanks in advance for any help, > Matthieu > > -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:223992 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
