Use Firefox 3.0.7
Use GNU Wget 1.11.4
I have a question about downloading web pages. If I download with web page complete will I be able to open the pages without being on line, or will there be some pages that I will still need to log in for.

If a web browser is not sufficient, is there some command I can use with Wget to accomplish this?

Thanks.

If all you want is a page or two, then saving the page as "Web page, Complete" will work fine. You'll have all the HTML and images and such, making the page look (almost) exactly as it did online. The links on the webpage will still point to their original targets, meaning the online pages. So if you download two pages that are supposed to link together, you'll have to manually change the HTML of the links.

If you're looking to download a whole lot of pages from one site or something like that, you'll need something called an "offline reader". I'm really unfamilar with them, so I can't really offer much advice.

Hope that helps!

if you don't mind command line tools then wget and cURL are options

It depends on the web page.....if it is going out to different sites to get things, then it will still need a connection to do that. I am sure there are some sites where it would be essentially impossible to get everything downloaded so the you would not need a connection.

Read the manual on wget--it has many options, most of which I have not even begun to tackle.

oh, wget is the tool, and a fun one! (many a gig of bandwidth wasted while learning that gem!)


Where http://www.gnu.org/ is the URL of the website. It will download the site (the whole site, so watch it) into the current directory, named: www.gnu.org/

Read that manual though, because there are literally thousands of possible configurations with all the options available!
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html

One of the coolest scripts I've used is curlmirror, which mirrors a website using curl, and is written in perl:

http://curl.haxx.se/programs/curlmirror.txt