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Web Dumper

Download web pages with content for offline viewing.

Version:  3.1.1

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Rubbish

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Contributed by: Andrew Harris Monday, April 09 2007 @ 03:52 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

No matter what site I put in it tells me it is an invalid address even though Safari has no problems. I am not behind a proxy either so there is no reason why it should not work.

A complete waste of time.   

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Rubbish - wessel

I had the same but I solved it by manually taking out the "https://" part of the URL I copied from the browser.
Quite clumsily it cannot process a URL copied from a browser. Also, with or without www leads to different results.
Other errors occur too: For several sites I only download the "browser not supported" page, or the Web Dumber goes in a loop of unfinished attempts to download.

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Tuesday, September 18 2007 @ 02:50 AM PDT


W/ or w/o www. - JUrsaMaj

This is not an error: example.com and www.example.com *are* 2 different URLs. Generally, the site will automatically refer the 1st URL to the other, but not always. For a program to assume you meant the www. *would* be an error.

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Wednesday, May 20 2009 @ 03:29 PM PDT


"browser not supported" - JUrsaMaj

Again, not an error. This page is returned by the site. Site downloaders often have a setting for what browser they pretend to be. If they identify themselves honestly, many site will give you exactly this page, because they don't *want* you sucking there site!

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Wednesday, May 20 2009 @ 03:35 PM PDT


Rubbish - ungeziefer

Same problem here. I've used Web Dumper in the past, and I seem to remember it working. But this version is very buggy indeed.

Yes, if you notice on the left side of the URL field, the "http://" is already there -- so, if you copy and paste a URL you get "http://http://...".

Easy enough, one would think -- just select that part of your URL and delete it, right? -- Wrong. Inexplicably, this doesn't seem to work (still says "address invalid") . But when I pasted the URL into TextEdit, deleted the "http" part, then copied and pasted into Web Dumper, it worked.

Very strange.

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Monday, October 01 2007 @ 12:36 PM PDT


NO Rubbish - funkymothers

I can't believe the previus poster did not get this to work. Web Dumper puts in http:// automatically for you. It gets confused when you put it in as well. How arrogant to slag this great application off like that.

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Thursday, October 04 2007 @ 05:19 PM PDT