What's new in Web Slurper 2.0
Sep 18, 2007
- Support for scheduled downloads
- Support for link redirection (META Tag Refresh and HTTP Redirection)
- Improvement for the Graphical User Interface
- Basic parser for other document Types (asp, jsp, php)
- Added progress bar in the download status table
- Smart update for only newer file signature
- File extension exclusion
- Support FTP leeching
- Support cookies
- Fixed Java 1.3 deprecated classes
- Fixed the http:// and ftp:// for URL without protocol prefix
- Fixed website without first document to be downloaded "index.html"
- Fixed download depth issue, where the user cannot download deeper if there is previous download task from the same host
- Fixed a bug where there is a strange index_temp.txt appearing in ftp download directories
- Fixed GUI JSplitPane Bug where the status tree when missing ( blink) for a while when download is completed
- Fixed "user.set" file problem where the Slurper program will hang if the user.set file is not found or has not default values
- Fixed HTML Attribute extraction bug in ParserForHTML where the implementation logic is not correct
- Support for downloads for files with blank spaces in between, where it is appended with and will not return download error
- Additional delmiter support for user-settings dialog boxes for for "space" and "comma" issue
- File path Changes for Slurper system files and default download directory, solved incompatibility with Unix machine issue.
- Enhanced Construction of Best effort Absolute URL from relative link to retrieve more links to be downloaded. Erroneous relative links with depth less than its parent path will be made equal depth with its parent path.
- Enhanced GUI in the status table where user can input download information directly for redownloading.