A website copy with HTTrack

Adventure City June 2002

problems:

1. no counter at the bottom of the home page (index.html and index-2.html) and on coupon
2. grey window instead of a scrolling text

Other examples with similar difficulties: Herberton | Firstenergy | Yorba

solutions:

1. In the folder _vti_bin/fpcount.exe are 2 files index???.html. These are "gif" files (see below). Rename them (replace .html by .gif).
   
   Then edit the home pages (index.html and index-2.html) and replace
   img src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/index????.html?Page=nomdepage.htm|Image=1"
   by
   img src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/index????.gif".
   Then edit the page acoupon.htm and do the same.
   
   
2. Then connect and visit the website homepage www.adventure.com. Wait until it is completely loaded.
   In the folder Temporary Internet Files, sort files by Internet Address, then look for www.adventurecity.com.
   
   Then copy the ".class" files in the capture folder www.adventurecity.com/applets/textscroll (this is not necessary with WinHTTrack 3.23).
   For each file, delete the figure between brackets [1] added by the explorer.
   As the applet "TextScroll" needs to know where is the text to display, the simplest is to copy or move the files www.adventurecity.com/ac2.txt and ac3.txt to www.adventurecity.com/applets/textscroll.
   Then you have to specify the path for the parameter value. Replace value="ac in the files www.adventurecity.com/index.html, index-2.html and kidcity.htm by value="../../applets/textscroll/ac. "TextScroll" also needs absolute addresses in the files ac2.txt and ac3.txt , so you have to modify these two files and replace ^^setURL(http://www.adventurecity.com) by ^^setURL(file:///full path name) for example ^^setURL(file:///C:/HTTrack/adventurecity/www.adventurecity.com/index.html) if your captures are on disk C, in the folder Httrack.
   If you copy this capture on a CD, you will have to modify all the lines to specify the new path. The simplest is to delete all the lines with a ^^setURL or accept an error page when clicking on the scrolling text.

• The link to the restaurants is still to be captured.
  

Each time you restart the capture, all the modifications are erased (here, only for the first problem).
You can add www.imenu.com in the URLs to capture or include the link +www.imenu.com in the scan rules, but www.imenu.com is a large site which is not very interesting unless you intend to visit the area.
You can also capture the part of the site about restaurants and modify all the links to www.imenu.com with inforapid, but this is a lot of work!

Problems with Java applets may appear once the capture is completed as, if the website has been visited recently, Internet Explorer finds the elements needed in the cache. Interrupted mirrors often have strange reactions because cached files are considered as absolute, but this cache can be very useful for uncorrupted files or almost any file the website copier cannot download.