<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">WOW!! ... that escalated fast ....I hope Richard found his answer</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Joe Tseng <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe_tseng@hotmail.com" target="_blank">joe_tseng@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
<div><div dir="ltr">What's the point of the exercise? If you use wget/curl, all that'll do is take a snapshot of that dynamically-generated page in time. If you pass different values in your GET variables or pass different POST form values, the page content will vary.<div>
<br></div><div>If the business logic behind those ASP pages is what is to be captured, there needs to be a human being there to look at it, understand what the site is trying to do, and convert it over properly. That takes time and effort. There's no magic bullet.<br>
<br><br>If you type "Google" into <a title="w:Google" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" target="_blank">Google</a>, you can break the Internet. -- Jen Barber<br><br><br><div><div></div>> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 13:39:54 -0400<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:djohngo@gmail.com" target="_blank">djohngo@gmail.com</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:calug@unknownlamer.org" target="_blank">calug@unknownlamer.org</a><div class="im"><br>> Subject: Re: [CALUG] Convert. Web pages in .asp to html<br>
> <br></div><div class="im">> On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:23:42AM -0400, Bryan J Smith wrote:<br>> > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Richard Stuart <<a href="mailto:rl.stuart@verizon.net" target="_blank">rl.stuart@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > <br>> > Do any of you have any ideas on how to convert asp to html<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > As Michael originally pointed out, you don't convert to HTML. HTML pages are<br>> > [largely] static content. Active Server Pages (ASP) are dynamic. Dynamic<br>
> > pages use functions and libraries that can be Server-side (Application Server)<br>> > and/or Client-side (Browser) specific.<br>> <br>> At some point, doesn't the browser have to think it's looking at HTML?<br>
> This leads me to believe that it might be possible to scrape the site<br>> with perl or curl/wget?<br></div></div></div> </div></div>
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