Offline Commander 2.1 - User Guide and FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions - Offline Commander

1. Does Offline Commander support password protected sites?
   Offline Commander supports both HTTP authentication (a dialog box that pops up when you enter a password protected Web site) and login forms on Web pages. In the first case Offline Commander displays a pop up dialog box prompting you for user name and password. In the second case you should manually browse to the login page using the integrated browser, enter your user name (login name) and password, and click the submit button on the Web page. If you were downloading a Web site several levels deep, the download will continue beyond the login page.
   
   
2. Is it possible to use Internet Explorer or Netscape when browsing the locally stored sites without using the Offline Commander interface?
   There's a button on the project toolbar called Export. After you download the files, click on the Export button and the entire project will be exported (saved as interlinked HTML files) to the folder of your choice. You can also export individual tasks using the Save As button on the Task toolbar (or a corresponding menu item on the Task menu).
   
   
3. I would like to add 1000 links which I already have in a text file. How could I do that?
   A: Select "Import Tasks" from the Task menu (or from the context menu) and browse to the file with URLs. Each URL in the text file should be on a separate line.
   
   
4. I am very interested in your product, but I have one question. How will it handle database driven sites? Does it download the database too? I have downloaded your tool to capture web sites and it works wonderfully. My question is 'Is there any way in which I can also capture my emails from a web site?'.
   Access to a database as well as CGI scripts on a database driven Web site is restricted to the owner of the site. Offline Commander can download only what is publicly available on Web sites. Offline Commander can download any Web content including the content GENERATED by server-side scripts such as ASP, PHP, Perl, Python, and the like. Offline Commander was not designed to capture email addresses. The integrated search feature will not let you search for mailto: or @ symbol (Offline Commander search works similar to Internet search engines like Google and AltaVista). However you can export the downloaded pages to a file system folder and use Windows search tool to search for any text including HTML tags and individual characters.
   
   
5. I was downloading a large website with numerous graphics (~100,000+) and got several error messages "Database out of space".
   Offline Commander stores all files in a Microsoft Access database which has a limit of 1 gigabyte. If you want to download larger Web sites you should upgrade to Internet Researcher. Upgrade costs $30. Internet Researcher stores the downloaded files outside of the project database.
   
   
6. Is there a way to merge two projects? (Even if it is a complicated procedure)
   It is not a complicated procedure. Just drag and drop one or more tasks from one project to another.