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

[Joe Tseng]

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.
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.


If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.  -- Jen Barber


> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 13:39:54 -0400
> From: djohngo at gmail.com
> To: calug at unknownlamer.org
> Subject: Re: [CALUG] Convert. Web pages in .asp to html
> 
> 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?
 		 	   		  
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