Here you will find general Project parameters.
Project Name
Enter the Project name as it will appear in the Projects tree.
Address (URL)
Portable Offline Browser begins downloading a Project starting from this Internet Address.
You may have multiple URLs per Project.
Tips: If you want to expand the URLs field, press F11 on your keyboard. If you want to see the full list of additional commands, press F12. Ctrl-A selects whole text.
Currently Portable Offline Browser supports the following URL types:
http:// - to access Web sites
https:// - to access secured Web sites
mms:// - to access Microsoft Media Player streams
mmst:// - to access Microsoft Media Player TCP-streams
pnm:// - to access older version of Real Player streams
rtsp:// - to access Real Player streams
ftp:// - to access FTP sites
file:// - to access HTML files stored locally on your hard disk
URL Formats:
http://web_server_name/path/filename.ext
or
https://secured_server/path/filename.ext
mms://media_server_name/path/filename.ext
file://c:/path/filename.ext
or
file://c:\path\filename.ext
or
file://server/path/file.ext
Please don’t forget to supply http://, https://, ftp://, mms://, mmst://, pnm://, rtsp:// or file:// prefix when entering a URL.
You may specify multiple URLs in a Project. Please enter one URL per line.
Comments may be added to the URLs field if you type the # symbol in the beginning of a line.
Portable Offline Browser supports URL macros. Macros are useful for scheduled automatic downloads when URL is changing every time.
For example, a weather site has an image that updates daily. Its URL has a day number inside.
Thus, http://www.weather.com/image5.png corresponds to the 5th day of the current month, while http://www.weather.com/image12.png corresponds to the 12th day of the current month.
In such case, the following URL macros will be useful: http://www.weather.com/image{:day}.png
When Portable Offline Browser starts downloading the Project, it substitutes macros with their values. Macro should start with {: symbols and end with }
The following macros are supported:
{:day} the current day number (1 - 31)
{:0day} the current day with a leading zero, when necessary (01 - 31)
{:shortday} the day as an abbreviation (Sun-Sat)
{:longday} the day as a full name (Sunday-Saturday)
{:month} the current month as a number without a leading zero (1-12)
{:0month} the month as a number with a leading zero (01-12)
{:shortmonth} the month as an abbreviation (Jan-Dec)
{:longmonth} the month as a full name (January-December)
{:year} the current year as a two-digit number (00-99)
{:longyear} the year as a four-digit number (0000-9999)
{:hour} the current hour without a leading zero (0-23)
{:0hour} the hour with a leading zero (00-23)
{:minute} the current minute without a leading zero (0-59)
{:0minute} the minute with a leading zero (00-59)
{:5..12} this is a special macro which will load URLs with numbers from 5 to 12. You may also use leading zeros in the first number.
{:0..100|25} the | separator defines enumeration step. In this example numbers 0, 25, 50, 75, 100 will be generated.
{:a..z} to load URLs with letters from a to z. You may use single letters from A to Z and a to z here. More information on URL Macros is available in the Help menu | Contents | Advanced Features | Using URL Macros.
Level
Level value defines how deep Portable Offline Browser will search for HTML documents.
Level 0 means that Portable Offline Browser will load one page, referred by Address (URL) with all images, video, sounds, Java scripts, Java classes, etc. on the page.
Level 1 means that Portable Offline Browser will load the first page and all pages linked to it with their images, etc.
Level 2 - everything as in Level 1 and every page linked to the downloaded ones. And so on... Images, frames, Java scripts, Java applets, sounds, video - they all will be downloaded with the Web page. With any level setting you will get complete Web pages. In other words, Level is the number of mouse clicks on Web links necessary to get from the starting page to the last page desired. The usual value of the Level is 0 through 3. Setting the Level to higher values may cause too many Web pages to be loaded. If you want to download a complete Web server, uncheck the Level checkbox and don’t forget to turn off downloading from other servers by choosing URL Filters | Server | Load files only from the starting server. Otherwise you may get the contents of the whole Internet to your hard disk.
File modification check
Defines how Portable Offline Browser will update downloaded Web sites. The following settings are allowed:
Download only modified files
When downloading the Project, Portable Offline Browser will check every previously downloaded file to see whether it was modified on Web server since the last download. If the file appears to be the same, it will be not loaded the second time. Note: not all Web servers and files support file modification check. For example, CGI-BIN and ASP applications, database access scripts, etc. This method is best for updating downloaded Web sites frequently.
Check file size
When downloading the Project, Portable Offline Browser will check every previously downloaded file to see whether it was modified on Web server since the last download. If the file appears to be the same, it will be not loaded the second time. But not all Web servers and files support file modification check. For example, CGI-BIN and ASP applications, database access scripts, etc. In such cases you may want to check file modifications by file size also. If the file size has not changed since the previous download, Portable Offline Browser considers the file to be the same. In rare cases it might be possible that updated file will have the same size. So, please, use this feature with caution.
Skip existing Media files
It is very common that images on Web sites change very rarely. If you check the Skip existing Media files box, Portable Offline Browser will load only new images, video and audio files and it will not verify if previously downloaded media files have changed. This can significantly reduce Web site update time.
Download all files
Portable Offline Browser will perform no modification check when loading Web sites. Every previously downloaded file will be overwritten. This method may be used if something has happened to a downloaded Web site and you need to completely replace it.
Do not download existing files
Portable Offline Browser will perform no modification check when loading Web sites. Instead, every already downloaded file will be kept and even updated copies will be not downloaded. This is the best way to complete partially downloaded Web sites, for example, if the previous download was interrupted for some reason.
Skip existing files on levels higher than
This method is the best one for downloading frequently updated news sites, etc. Portable Offline Browser will check every page on specified Levels and pages will be downloaded only if they are missing on your local hard disk. For example, most news sites have an index page with links to news articles and many articles pages. These articles are never updated, they are just added or deleted often. In this case setting "Skip existing files on levels higher than 0" will mean that the first page (on Level 0) will be checked and downloaded if it was modified, and then Portable Offline Browser will download only missing news articles. All previously loaded news pages will be neither checked for modifications nor downloaded again.
Tips: to expand the URLs field, press F11 on your keyboard. If you want to see the full list of additional commands, press F12. Ctrl-A selects whole text.
To get more help on URL Macros, please click here.
The URLs field may contain certain Additional commands. The whole list of parameters is available here.
You can also do the following tasks using the URLs field:
Export or print Project automatically after downloading.
Delete old Project files automatically after downloading.
Specify custom referrer, cookie or POST request.
Collect E-mails from downloaded Web pages.
Indexing downloaded pages
Searching downloaded files for keywords in the Find Contents dialog can be done instantly, if you check the "Index downloaded files for faster search" box.