[svlug] can a linux webbrowser make sites avail offline?

[Seth David Schoen]

J C Lawrence writes:

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:40:47 -0800 (PST) 
> Gordon Vrololjak <gvrdolja at nature.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > Hello, I was wondering if anyone new of a feature available in
> > internet explorer for a browser for linux.  I want to download
> > some class computer programming web pages for offline use on my
> > laptop on BART.  In internet explorer they have an option for
> > making pages available off line with up to 3 links in depth.  Is
> > there something comparable in linux through one of the browsers or
> > another application?  
> 
> man wget.

wget doesn't seem to have some of the features of the IE browse
offline command -- it only follows links, and downloads inline images,
but doesn't seem to download stylesheets, etc.  IE's browse offline
also seems to rewrite absolute links into relative links so that they
will work properly without an Internet connection.

Is there a way to make wget do this?  I tried to write a script which
uses wget to preserve snapshots of web sites, but the snapshots
produced with wget -m were often fairly incomplete.

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