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

[Rajiv Gunja]

WOW!! ... that escalated fast ....I hope Richard found his answer

-GG


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Joe Tseng <joe_tseng at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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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