On Feb 18, 10:15 pm, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: > Thomas Allen <thomasmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 18, 4:51 am, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 18, 7:34 pm, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: > > > > > Yeah, but wget -r -k will do that bit of it, too. > > > > Wow, nice, I don't know why I never noticed that. Cheers! > > > Hm...doesn't do that over here. I thought it may have been because of > > absolute links (not to site root), but it even leaves things like <a > > href="/">. Does it work for you guys? > > It works for me. The sample pages I just tested on it don't use > any href="/" links, but my 'href="/about.html"' got properly > converted to 'href="../about.html"'. (On the other hand my '/contact.html' > got converted to a full external URL...but that's apparently because the > contact.html file doesn't actually exist :) > > --RDM
Thanks for the help everyone. The idea of counting the slashes was the linchpin of this little script, and with a little trial and error, I successfully generated a local copy of the site. I don't think my colleague knows what went into this, but he seemed appreciative :^) Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list