[CALUG] Convert. Web pages in .asp to html

John L. Cunningham djohngo at gmail.com
Mon May 6 13:39:54 EDT 2013


On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:23:42AM -0400, Bryan J Smith wrote:
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Richard Stuart <rl.stuart at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>     Do any of you have any ideas on how to convert asp to html
> 
> 
> As Michael originally pointed out, you don't convert to HTML.  HTML pages are
> [largely] static content.  Active Server Pages (ASP) are dynamic.  Dynamic
> pages use functions and libraries that can be Server-side (Application Server)
> and/or Client-side (Browser) specific.

At some point, doesn't the browser have to think it's looking at HTML?
This leads me to believe that it might be possible to scrape the site
with perl or curl/wget?
-- 
John



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