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<body class='hmmessage'><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 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" class="ecxextiw" title="w:Google" target="_blank">Google</a>, you can break the Internet. -- Jen Barber<br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 13:39:54 -0400<br>> From: djohngo@gmail.com<br>> To: calug@unknownlamer.org<br>> Subject: Re: [CALUG] Convert. Web pages in .asp to html<br>> <br>> 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 <rl.stuart@verizon.net> 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></body>
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