Web2Disk Revision History

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 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 behaviour, 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