Web2Disk Revision History

Version 3.2.5

• Fixed a bug with the "Manual Login" option that could cause the crawler to not be able to crawl some sites.

Version 3.2.4

• Added a new option to download "near" files (enabled by default). This allows Web2Disk to automatically download files from external sites that may be required by your site even though they're located outside the Root URL.

Version 3.2.3

• Fixed a bug that could cause JavaScript to become malformed if ";" line terminators not used.
• Enhanced character encoding detection, fixes wrong characters appearing in pages of some websites.

Version 3.2.2

• Added an option to Advanced Project Settings to disable auto-correcting HTML (auto-correcting should be enabled for most sites)

Version 3.2.1

• Fixed Maximum File Count setting not working correctly.

Version 3.2.0

• Added "Soft 404" detection
• Enhanced JavaScript parser improves compatibility with sites using jQuery
• Added support for internationalized domain names (IDNA encoding)
• Added option to ignore HTTP "Content-Type" header
• Added option to make parsing HTML form "action" attribute optional
• Improved usability of "File Filters" interface
• Added timeout and server error summary to log
• Various minor bug fixes and enhancements

Version 3.1.7

• Added option to save Change Log to disk after each crawl
• Added ability to specify output path on the command line
• Added the option to set the default Save Path in "Default Project Settings"

Version 3.1.6

• Minor change to correct "Unexpected Error" when download file already exists

Version 3.1.5

• Fixed offline browsing issues on sites that have invalid relative paths
• Updated cookie handler for improved site compatibility
• Fixed "Unexpected Error" that could occur while trying to save pages on some sites
• Fixed issues with Windows Program Compatibility Assistant

Version 3.1.4

• Added message to indicate when a URL timeout occurs
• Fixed "Add Date to Old Downloads" option always appearing "checked" in Advanced Project Settings

Version 3.1.3

• Fixed "Rename Files" option not saving with Project Settings
• Fixed "Link Depth" increment (now 1 instead of 128)
• Fixed minor issues with scheduler user interface

Version 3.1.2

• Fixed a bug in IE conditional comment handling that could cause some links not to work when browsing offline
• Improved error messages when crawling fails
• Fixed minor bug that could cause HTML content not to be recognized on with servers

Version 3.1.1

• Added support for IE conditional comments
• Fixed a browsing issue in IE affecting sites with the "base" HTML tag

Version 3.1.0

• New multi-threaded crawler for significantly faster crawls
• Added option to use HTTP 1.0
• Added option to obey robots "nofollow" meta tag
• Added options to enable/disable HTTP keep-alive
• Added options to enable/disable HTTP compression
• Improved project Export/Import
• Updated user interface to show download progress of large files

Version 3.0.7

• Fixed an error that could cause Web2Disk to unexpectedly close if no Root URL was invalid.

Version 3.0.6

• Changed "Launch" shortcut from Windows Shortcut to HTML file (now works when burned to CD)
• Web2Disk now remembers previous window location
• Scheduler log is now more verbose when certain types of errors occur
• Added TLS Email option
• Added context sensitive help (F1 can also now be used a help shortcut on any screen)

Version 3.0.5

• Fixed Form Wizard not properly catching post data on non-HTTPs sites
• Fixed scheduler so "Last Result" no longer shows random value while task is still running

Version 3.0.4

• Scheduler now verifies user password before saving task
• Updated "Default Project Settings" page (differentiates itself from "Advanced Project Settings")
• Added support for Google's Ajax crawling framework ("_escaped_fragement_")

Version 3.0.3

• Enhanced Scheduler so tasks can be scheduled to run when user is not logged on
• Excluded pages now works correctly when non standard port is used.
• Changed Additional Root URL behavior, pages under Additional Root URL paths are now treated as internal.
• Added option to launch Web2Disk directly from installer.

Version 3.0.2

• Fixed a problem creating autorun files with "favicon" for some websites
• Fixed a problem creating launch shortcuts for some websites
• Enabled HTTP Keep-Alive for improved performance

Version 3.0.1

• Fixed scheduler viewer to delay when starting a scheduled task
• Removed auto-scaling from all forms
• Fixed various minor bugs

Version 3.0.0

• Updated website save structure to make CD burning simpler
• Automatically creates a "Launch Website" shortcut in downloads folder
• Import Robots.txt now imports "Allow" rules
• Added Export Robots.txt capability
• Robots.txt import now correctly imports "Allow" rules
• Exclusion list now supports "$" character to match end of URLs
• New Windows 7 look and feel
• New easier scheduler interface, allows editing of scheduled tasks and uses wizard interface
• Scheduling tasks no longer requires windows password
• New report engine no longer requires GAC registration
• Runs as 64-bit process on 64-bit versions of Windows
• Now possible to use custom User Agent strings
• Crawler now uses HTTP compression when possible
• Added "Manual Login" option for password protected websites
• Added ability to restrict maximum URL length
• Added ability to restrict maximum file download size
• Various improvements to crawler for enhanced website compatibility

Version 2.0.19

• Fixed issue with downloading non-standard PDFs
• Fixed issue with offline URLs when non-standard port is used

Version 2.0.18

• File downloads now preserve original URL casing
• Fixed offline browsing with redirected folders

Version 2.0.17

• Further improved JavaScript handling when operating in Heuristic mode
• Fixed page encoding problem that could cause some downloaded sites to render characters incorrectly
• Added path compression to handle paths longer than 260 characters (paths now longer than 260 characters after compression are now skipped)
• Web2Disk now renames old website downloads (download date of old version is appended), this can be disabled in Advanced Project Settings
• Fixed "Server Committed a Protocol Violation" error that affected some web servers
• Web2Disk now saves the state of "Open in Browser" and "Create Shortcut" buttons

Version 2.0.16

• Fixed a minor issue that could cause Web2Disk to hang on some websites when using JavaScript heuristics

Version 2.0.15

• Changed default User-Agent string to IE7

Version 2.0.14

• Shortcuts can now contain ".com" in their names
• Added more aggressive JavaScript support
• Web2Disk now creates Autorun files for burning websites to CD/DVD
• Scheduler now allows scheduled tasks to end with ".com"

Version 2.0.13

• Fixed several minor problems with sites that use HTTP redirects from the Root URL

Version 2.0.12

• Fixed compatibility issue with servers using Content-Location header
• Fixed redirected URLs for offline browsing
• Fixed invalid relative paths not corrected for offline browsing

Version 2.0.11

• Further fixes for different types of "Illegal characters in path" errors

Version 2.0.10

• Fixed "Illegal characters in path" error experienced by some users
• Fixed illegal characters in project names problem
• Upgraded crawler to handle additional HTML attributes

Version 2.0.9

• Fixed offline browsing for some pages that were not available if URL contained entities
• Increased the maximum value for "Maximum File Count" allowed

Version 2.0.8

• Fixed 'Unexpected Error' window from popping up on invalid Root URLs
• User-Agent control now appears correctly in Advanced Project Settings

Version 2.0.7

• Updated how offline URLs are created for better compatibility with SWF and other file types
• Fixed a minor bug that could cause 'An entry with the same key exits' error for some sites

Version 2.0.6

• Fixed a minor bug that could cause 'Illegal Characters in Path' error
• Fixed various minor issues that affected some sites when converting offline URLs

Version 2.0.5

• Web2Disk now works with 64-bit Vista

Version 2.0.4

• Minor updates to internal components

Version 2.0.3

• Fixed bug that could cause Domain Aliases to be ignored

Version 2.0.2

• Fixed Additional Root URLs not being used correctly
• Fixed problem with entity escaped URLs and anchors not being processed correctly (affected phpBB sites)

Version 2.0.1

• Fixed a bug that would stop the Password Protected Pages Wizard from working on some systems

Version 2.0.0

• Web2Disk now requires the .NET Framework version 2.0
• Added Domain Alias support
• Added email notification to scheduled operation
• Added ability to monitor website for changes
• Changed 'Create Desktop Shortcut' to 'Create Shortcut' (shortcut location is now user defined)

Version 1.2.0

• Added support for Additional Root URLs (to download sites which are not fully cross-linked)
• Added basic JavaScript handling
• Fixed an HTML entity decoding bug when 2 digit hex values are used
• Fixed parsing of URLs beginning with "//"
• Fixed minor bug in "Open in Browser" button

Version 1.1.6

• Added the "Master Project" settings
• Added proper menu bar
• Added "Import Robots.txt" functionality

Version 1.1.5

• Minor internal improvements

Version 1.1.4

• Improved handling of off-site and non-HTML links
• Anchors are now correctly preserved

Version 1.1.3

• Improved CSS handling
• Passwords entered the Protected Pages window are now hidden

Version 1.1.2

• Fixed a character encoding bug that could cause "garbage" characters to appear in documents
• Fixed a bug that prevented the 'Open in Browser' button from working correctly when Root URL contained a filename (www.example.com/filename.html)

Version 1.1.1

• Improved performance of crawler when site contains many time-out errors
• Fixed "Invalid Character" bug
• Fixed formatting of download speed display for large files

Version 1.1.0

• Fixed a minor bug that would cause PDF and JavaScript files to not download correctly
• Added the ability to filter only certain files for download (click 'Wrench' icon)

Version 1.0.1

• Changed trial limitations: No limit on crawl, nag now appears on each downloaded page
• Automatically append default filename to links that only point to directories

Version 1.0.0

• Initial Release