Versions HTTrack

HTTrack Website Copier release history:

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This file lists all changes and fixes that have been made for HTTrack.

3.47-24

• New: support for IDNA / RFC 3492 (punycode) handling
• New: openssl is no longer dynamically probed at stratup, but dynamically linked
• Fixed: random closing of files/sockets, leading to "zip_zipWriteInFileInZip_failed" assertion, "bogus state" messages, or random garbage in downloaded files
• Fixed: libssl.dylib is now in the search list for libssl on OSX (Nils Breunese)
• Fixed: bogus charset because the meta http-equiv tag is placed too far in the html page
• Fixed: incorrect \\machine\dir structure build on Windows (TomZ)
• Fixed: do not force a file to have an extension unless it has a known type (such as html), or a possibly known type (if delayed checks are disabled)
• Fixed: HTML 5 addition regarding "poster" attribute for the "video" tag (Jason Ronallo)
• Fixed: memory leaks in proxytrack.c (Eric Searcy)
• Fixed: correctly set the Z flag in hts-cache/new.txt file (Peter)
• Fixed: parallel patch, typo regarding ICONV_LIBS (Sebastian Pipping)
• Fixed: memory leak in hashtable, that may lead to excessive memory consumption
• Fixed: on Windows, fixed possible DLL local injection (CVE-2010-5252)
• Fixed: UTF-8 conversion bug on Linux that may lead to buggy filenames
• Fixed: zero-length files not being properly handled (not saved on disk, not updated) (lugusto)
• Fixed: serious bug that may lead to download several times the same file, and "Unexpected 412/416 error" errors
• Fixed: images in CSS were sometimes not correctly detected (Martin)
• Fixed: links within javascript events were sometimes not correctly detected (wquatan)
• Fixed: webhttrack caused bus error on certain systems, such as Mac OSX, due to the stack size (Patrick Gundlach)
• Fixed: bogus charset for requests when filenames have non-ascii characters (Steven Hsiao)
• Fixed: bogus charset on disk when filenames have non-ascii characters (Steven Hsiao)
• Fixed: fixed 260-characters path limit for Windows (lugusto)
• Fixed: non-ascii characters encoding issue inside query string (lugusto)
• Fixed: HTML entities not properly decoded inside URI and query string
• Fixed: URL-encoding issue within URI
• Fixed: --timeout alias did not work
• Fixed: more windows-specific fixes regarding 260-character path limit
• Fixed: escaping issue in top index
• Fixed: Linux build cleanup (gentoo patches merge, lintian fixes et al.)
• Fixed: Fixed div-by-zero when specifying more than 1000 connections per seconds (probably not very common)
• Fixed: Mishandling of '+' in URLs introduced in 3.47-15 (sarclaudio)
• Fixed: "Wildcard domains in cookies do not match" (alexei dot co at gmail dot com )
• Fixed: buggy referer while parsing: the referer of all links in the page is the current page being parsed, NOT the parent page. (alexei dot com at gmail dot com)
• Fixed: Russian translation fixes by Oleg Komarov (komoleg at mail dot ru)
• New: Added .torrent => application/x-bittorrent built-in MIME type (alexei dot co at gmail dot com)
• Fixed: unable to download an URL whose filename embeds special characters such as # (lugusto)
• New: Croatian translation by Dominko Aždajić (domazd at mail dot ru)
• Fixed: url-escaping regression introduced in the previous subrelease
• Fixed: content-disposition NOT taken in account (Stephan Matthiesen)
• Fixed: buggy DNS cache leading to random crashes
• Fixed: fixed logging not displaying robots.txt rules limits by default
• Fixed: license year and GPL link, libtool fixes (cicku)
• Fixed: Keywords field in desktop files (Sebastian Pipping)
  
  

3.46-1

• New: Unicode filenames handling
• Fixed: fixed bug in handling of update/continue with erased files or renamed files, leading to "Unexpected 412/416 error (Requested Range Not Satisfiable)" and/or "Previous cache file not found" (-1)" errors
• Fixed: escape characters >= 128 when sending GET/HEAD requests to avoid server errors
• Fixed: do not use "delayed" extensions when the mirror is aborting
• Fixed: generate error pages when needed (Brent Palmer)
• Fixed: parsing issue with js files due to "script" tags (Vasiliy)
• Fixed: anonymous FTP without password (Luiz)
• Fixed: Makefile issues regarding parrallel build and examples (Sebastian Pipping)
• Fixed: removed deprecated and annoying "Accept-Charset" header in requests (Piotr Engelking) (closes:#674053)
  
  

3.45-4

• New: source license is now GPLv3
• New: added a "K5" feature to handle transparent proxies (Brent Palmer)
• New: option -y to control ^Z behavior (Julian H. Stacey)
• Fixed: replace // by / when saving rather than _/ (Brent Palmer)
• Fixed: do not interpret ^C before mirror is finished, or after
• Fixed: webhttrack: do not use md5sum to produce a temporary filename, but mktemp (Ryan Schmidt)
• Fixed: document %k for custom structure (full query string)
  
  

3.45-3

• Fixed: spurious "Previous file not found (erased by user ?)" messages leading to retransfer existing files in cache (Alain Desilets)
• Fixed: --max-time now stops the mirror smoothly (Alain Desilets)
  
  

3.45-2

• Fixed: number of simultaneous connections was often only one
• Fixed: "Unexpected 412/416 error" leading to have broken files on disk
  
  

3.45-1

• Fixed: interrupting an update/continue mirror session should not delete anymore previously downloaded content (William Roeder, Alain Desilets and many others)
• Fixed: --continue/--update bug leading to download again already cached data in some cases (especially redirect/error pages)
  
  

3.44-5

• Fixed: crash when using -d with non-fully-qualified hostname (Alain Desilets)
• Fixed: typo in logs (Pascal Boulerie)
  
  

3.44-4

• Fixed: random crash when interrupting the mirror (spotted by -fstack-protector) in htscoremain.c (closes:#657878)
  
  

3.44-3

• Fixed: Linux build (closes:#657334)
  
  

3.44-2

• Fixed: malformed format htslib.c (Moritz Muehlenhoff)
• Fixed: default footer print format
• New: clever "^C" handling
• New: added --do-not-generate-errors option
• New: increased maximum cookie name
  
  

3.44-1

• Fixed: Randomly corrupted files during updates due to "engine: warning: entry cleaned up, but no trace on heap"/"Unexpected 412/416 error" errors (Petr Gajdusek ; closes:#614966)
  
  

3.43-12

• Fixed: buffer overflow while repairing httrack cache if a damaged cache is found from a previous mirror (closes:#607704)
  
  

3.43-11

• Fixed: webhttrack fixes for icecat (closes:#605140)
  
  

3.43-10

• Fixed: capture URL not working properly when IPv6 is installed (John Bostelman)
  
  

3.43-9

• Fixed: application/xhtml+xml not seen as "html" (Peter Fritzsche)
• Fixed: various linux fixes for desktop files (closes:#563691)
  
  

3.43-8

• Fixed: URL encoding bugs with filenames containing '%' characters (sandboxie32)
• Fixed: MacPorts Darwin/Mac fixes to webhttrack (Ross Williams)
• Fixed: Flash link extraction has been improved (Vincent/suei8423)
  
  

3.43-7

• Fixed: "Open error when decompressing" errors due to temporary file generation problems (Scott Mueller)
  
  

3.43-6

• Shell: WIN32 setup cosmetic fixes: do not probe the proxy on non-local network, do not force *.whtt registration
  
  

3.43-5

• Fixed: code tag handling bug in certain cases leading to produce invalid links (Tom-tmh13 and William Roeder)
  
  

3.43-4

• Fixed: horrible SSL slowdowns due to bogus select() calls (Patrick Pfeifer)
• Fixed: Konqueror fixes
  
  

3.43-3

• Updated: Portugues-Brasil language file
  
  

3.43-2

• Fixed: wizard question buggy, and commandline version did not print it (Maz)
• Fixed: do not rename xml subtypes (such as xsd schemas) (Eric Avrillon)
  
  

3.43

• Fixed: Fixed too aggressive javascript url= parsing (Chris)
• Fixed: fixed --urllist option "sticking" the list content to the list of URL (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed: "Previous cache file not found" not redownloading file when deleted before an update (William Roeder)
• Fixed: *.rpm.src files renamed to *.src.src with bogus servers (Hippy Dave)
• Fixed: "pause" is pausing much faster (William Roeder)
• Fixed: binary real media files and related files are no longer being parsed as html (William Roeder)
• Fixed: "File not parsed, looks like binary" check no longer corrupt the checked binary file
• Fixed: multiple download of error pages (several identical '"Not Found" (404) at link [identical link]') leading to a slowdown in certain cases (William Roeder)
• Fixed: sometimes, a double request was issued to update a broken file
• Fixed: display bug "link is probably looping, type unknown, aborting .."
• Fixed: missing library references at build time and other build related issues (Debarshi Ray)
• Fixed: on windows, switched from wsock32.dll to ws2_32.dll
• Fixed: minor argument size validation error for "-O" option (Joan CALVET)
  
  

3.42-3

• Fixed: Bad URL length validation in the commandline (CVE-2008-3429) (Joan CALVET)
  
  

3.42-2

• Fixed: Random crashes at the end of the mirror due to a dangling file pointer (Carlos, angus at quovadis.com.ar)
  
  

3.42

• Fixed: size limits are stopping the mirror gently, finishing pending transfers (David Stevenson)
  
  

3.41-3

• Fixed: text/plain advertised files renamed into .txt
• Fixed: broken configure.in
  
  

3.41-2

• Fixed: major WIN32 inlined function bug caused the cache not to be used at all, causing update not to work
  
  

3.41

• New: changed API/ABI to thread-safe ones (libhttrack1 2), big cleanup in all .h definitions
• Fixed: Major memory usage bug when downloading large sites
• Fixed: do not rename files if the original MIME type was compatible
• Fixed: several source fixes for freeBSD (especially time problems)
• New: option %w to disable specific modules (java, flash..)
• Fixed: 'no space left in stack for back_add' error
• Fixed: fixed redirected images with "html" type
• Fixed: 'Crash adding error, unexpected error found.. [4268]' error
  
  

3.40-2

• Fixed: bogus '.del' filenames with ISO-9660 option
• Fixed: now merges the header charset even with an empty footer string
• New: --port option for webhttrack

3.40

• New: mms:// streaming capture (thanks to Nicolas Benoit!)
• New: proxyTrack project released
• New: new experimental parser that no longer needs link testing ('testing link type..')
• New: Redirect handled transparently with delayed type check and broken links made external when the "no error page" option is enabled
• New: improved background download to handle large sites
• New: '--assume foo/bar.cgi=text/html' is now possible
• New: MIME type scan rules (such as -mime:video/* +mime:video/mpeg)
• New: size scan rules now allows to rewrite uncaught links as external links
• Fixed: crash fixed when ftime()/localtime()==NULL
• Fixed: iso-9660 option now using '_' for collision character
• Fixed: collision problems with CaSe SeNsItIvItY
• Fixed: a href='..' fixed!
• Fixed: redirects are now handled by the new experimental parser
• Fixed: "./" links generated with fixed outbound links (../../)
• Fixed: 'base href' bogus in many cases
• Fixed: enforce security limits to avoid bandwidth abuses
• Fixed: bogus external (swf) parser, fixed remaining .delayed files
• New: new check-mime and save-file2 callbacks
• New: "always delayed type check" enabled
• Fixed: totally bogus finalizer causing compressed files not to be uncompressed, and many files to be truncated
• Shell: new Finnish interface added!
• Fixed: "..html" bogus type
• Fixed: remaining bogus .delayed entries
• Fixed: flush before user-defined command
• Fixed: fixed user-defined command call and background cleaner
• Fixed: fixed 'Crash adding error, unexpected error found.. [4250]' error
• Fixed: fixed cache absolute file reference (the reference is now relative) preventing the cache form being moved to another place
• Fixed: webhttrack 'Browse Sites' path bug
• Fixed: old httrack cache format fixes (import of older versions did not work anymore)
• Fixed: port fixes in htsnet.h
• Fixed: -N option with advanced extraction (bogus "not found" member)
• Fixed: javascript: location=URL was not recognized
• Fixed: no more character escaping when not needed (such as UTF-8 codes)
• Fixed: possibly temporary files left on disk with bogus servers giving compressed content on HEAD reuests
• Fixed: URL hack caused unexpected filename collisions (index.html vs INDEX.HTML)
• Fixed: "do not erase already downloaded file" option now correctly works (it leaves files linked in the mirror)
• Fixed: UCS2 encoded pages are now converted properly into UTF-8
• New: "near" option now also catch embedded (images, css, ..) files
• Fixed: bogus chunked multimedia link text files (such as x-ms-asf files)
• Fixed: compilation problems on Un*x version
  
  

3.33

• Fixed: Bogus redirects with same location in https
• Fixed: Bogus file naming with URL hack
• Fixed: Extremly slow redirections and empty files
• Fixed: Bogus names with directories ending with a "."
• New: Number of connection per second can now be.. decimal, to delay even more
• New: Enforce stronger ISO9660 compliance
• Shell: "URL Hack" in interface
• Shell: "Save settings" now rebuild categories
• Shell: "Shutdown PC after mirror" option
• Shell: Sound at the beginning/end or the mirror (configurable through system sound properties)
• Shell: Fixed drag & drop, .url import
• Shell: Fixed "wizard" mode (crash)
• Fixed: Crash at the end due to unterminated pending threads
• Fixed: \ is not anymore transformed into / after the query (?) delimiter
• New: Two new callbacks for pre/post-processing html data
• New: link-detected2 callback (additional tag name parameter)
• Fixed: Broken ISO9660
• Fixed: Crash on file:// links
• Fixed: Unescaped ampersands (&) in URLs
• Fixed: Transfer hangs introduced in 3.33-beta-2
• Fixed: Display bug "Waiting for scheduled time.."
• Fixed: Bug "Waiting for scheduled time.." (NOT a display bug, actually)
• Fixed: CaSe SenSiTiViTy bugs with mutliple links reffering to the same URL but using different case styles
• Fixed: Failed to build from sources (FTBFS) on amd64 archs because of cast problems (Andreas Jochens)
• Fixed: & were converted into   (Leto Kauler)
• Shell: Fixed crash with long URL lists (Libor Striz)
• Fixed: connection/seconds limiter replugged
• Fixed: "no files updated" display bug
• Fixed: bogus links encoded with UTF (Lukasz Wozniak)
• New: --assume can be used to force a specific script type (Brian Schröder)
  
  

3.32

• Fixed: css and js files were not parsed!
• Fixed: again broken file:// (infinite loops with local crawls)
• Fixed: Bandwidth limiter more gentle with low transfer rate
• Fixed: external wrappers were not called during updates/continue
• New: additional callback examples
• Fixed: overflow in unzip.c fixed
• New: tests are now cached for better performances!
• New: %r (protocol) option for user-defined structure
• Fixed: Broken engine on 64-bit archs
  
  

3.31

• New: Experimental categories implemented
• New: New cache format (ZIP file)
• New: .m3u files now crawled
• New: .aam files now crawled
• Fixed: Broken ftp
• Fixed: Broken file://
• Fixed: Broken cookies management and loading
• Fixed: HTTrackInterface.c:251 crash
• Fixed: "N connections" means "N connections" even in scan phase
• Fixed: javascript:location bug
• Fixed: libtool versioning problem fixed
• Fixed: More javascript bugs with \' and \"
• Fixed: .HTM files not renamed into .html anymore
• Fixed: OSX fixes in the Makefile script
• New: Default "referer" and "from" fields
• New: Full HTTP headers are now stored in cache
• Fixed: ftp transfer not logged/properly finalized
• Fixed: Missing symbolic link in webhttrack install
• Fixed: path and language not saved in webhttrack
• Shell: Avoid invalid project names
• Fixed: Javascript bug with src=
• Fixed: Keep-alive consistency problems on Linux/Unix with bogus servers (SIGPIPE)
• Fixed: Parsing bug inside javascript (bogus parsing with empty quotes in function: foo())
• Fixed: static compiling on Linux/Unix
• Fixed: bloated .h headers (internal function definitions)
• Fixed: Bogus query strings with embedded ../ and/or ./
• New: Added "change-options" call in the crawl beginning
• New: Query arguments now sorted for normalized URL checks (when "url hack" option is activated)
• Fixed: Previous dependency to zlib.dll to zlib1.dll
• Fixed: Broken static files were not correctly updated with the new cache format
• Shell: Launch button in Internet Explorer
• Fixed: Crash when dealing with multiple '?' in query string with 3.31-alpha
  
  

3.30

• New: Webhttrack, a linux/unix/bsd Web GUI for httrack
• New: "URL hack" feature
• New: HTTP-headers charset is now propagated in the html file
• New: loadable external engine callbacks
• New: Experimental ".mht" archives format
• Fixed: Query ?? bug
• Fixed: Bogus base href without http://
• Fixed: Several javascript bugs
• Fixed: UCS2 pages badly detected
• Fixed: Build structure change does not redownload files
• Fixed: "?foo" URL bug (link with only a query string) fixed
• Fixed: ' or " inside non-quoted URLs
• Fixed: keep-alive problems with bogus servers
• Fixed: Broken .ra files
• Fixed: More javascript bugs
• Fixed: ftp transfers not properly monitored in the shell
• Fixed: various fixes in webhttrack
• Fixed: Blank final page in webhttrack
• Fixed: Javascript comments (//) are skipped
• Fixed: Temporary fix for "archive" bug with multiple java archives
• Fixed: Inlined js or css files have their path relative to the parent
• Fixed: Unescaped quotes ("") when continuing/updating in commandline mode
• Fixed: Null-character in html page bug
• Fixed: External depth slightly less bogus
• Fixed: Filters based on size bogus ("less than 1KiB" is now functionning)
• Fixed: Strange behaviour with filters (last filter "crushed")
• Fixed: Bogus downloads when using ftp (unable to save file)
• Fixed: Freeze with keep-alive on certain sites due to bad chunk encoding handling
• Fixed: Problems with javascript included paths
• Fixed: The mirror now aborts when the filesystem is full
• Fixed: "No external pages" option fixed
• Fixed: Javascript and \" in document.write bug fixed
• Fixed: Two memory leaks in temporary file generation, and in link build fixed
• Fixed: Bogus compression with non-gzip format
• Fixed: Larger range of charsets accepted
• Fixed: Bogus robots.txt when using comments (#)
• Fixed: Missing MIME types for files such as .ico
• Shell: Fixed continuous proxy search
• Shell: Fixed missing HelpHtml/ link
• Fixed: Overflow in htsback.c:2779
• Fixed: Bogus style and script expressions due to too aggressive parsing
• Fixed: Javascript parsing bugs with \" and \'
• Fixed: Javascript link detection bugs when comments were inserted between arguments
• Fixed: Bug when valid empty gzip content was received
• New: More aggressive "maximum mirroring time" and "maximum amount of bytes transfered" options
• New: Windows file://server/path syntax handled
• Fixed: mht archive fixes
• Fixed: Serious bugs with filters given in commandline erased by the engine
• Fixed: Bogus parsing of javascript: generated inside document.write() inside javascript code removed
  
  

3.23

• New: Keep-alive
• New: URLs size limit is now 1024 bytes
• New: Bogus UCS2 html files hack
• Fixed: base href bugs
• Fixed: windows "dos devices" bug fixed
• Fixed: dirty parsing now avoids ","
• Fixed: "get non-html files near a link" option sometimes caused huge mirrors
• Fixed: Bugs if zlib library is not found
• Fixed: Bug with "near" and "no external pages"
• Fixed: "Link empty" crash
• Fixed: Several javascript bugs
• Fixed: Keep-alive problems ("unknown response structure")
• Fixed: Major keep-alive bug (connection not closed)
• Fixed: 8-3 options not working, ISO9660 option improved
• Fixed: Bogus links with embedded CR, TAB..
• Fixed: small ../ external link bug fixed
  
  

3.22-3

• Fixed: Slow engine due to (too strict) memory checks
• Fixed: Overflow in htscore.c:2353
• Fixed: Bogus chunked files with content-length fixed
• Fixed: Folders renamed into ".txt" on Un*x platforms bug fixed!
• New: Scan rule list (-%S) added
• New: Cache debugging tool (-#C) added
  
  

3.21-8

• New: Basic Macromedia Flash support (links extraction)
• New: Modular design for https, flash parser and zlib
• New: Standard autoconf/configure design on Un*x platforms
• New: Modular design also on Windows platforms (dll/lib)
• Fixed: Text files without extension not renamed "html" anymore
• Fixed: Bug with "?foo" urls
• Fixed: No chmod 755 on home anymore
• Fixed: Stability problems due to bad file structure checks
• Fixed: Overflow in GUI/commandline when displaying statistics
• Fixed: Directory creation error
  
  

3.20-2

• New: HTTPS support (SSL)
• New: ipv6 support
• New: 'longdesc' added
• New: new file 'new.txt' generated for transfer status reports
• New: ISO9660 compatibility option
• New: empty mirror/update detection improved
• New: Update hack now recognizes "imported" files
• New: Option to disable ipv4/ipv6
• New: Filters now recognize patterns like -https://*
• Fixed: The engine should be now fully reentrant
• Fixed: Fixes for alpha and other 64-bit systems
• Fixed: Files downloaded twice if not found in cache
• Fixed: ftp problems with 2xx responses
• Fixed: ftp problems with multiple lines responses
• Fixed: ftp %20 not escaped anymore
• Fixed: ftp RETR with quotes problems
• Fixed: now tolerent to empty header responses
• Fixed: hts-log closed
• Fixed: Compressed pages during updates
• Fixed: Crash when receiving empty compressed pages
• Fixed: Random crashes in 'spider' mode
• Fixed: bcopy/bzero not used anymore..
• Fixed: various code cleanups
• Fixed: Better UTF8 detection
• Fixed: External links now work with https and ftp
• Fixed: Top index.html corrupted or missing
• Fixed: URL list crashes
• Fixed: Random crashes with large sites due to bogus naming handler
• Fixed: Freezes on some robots.txt files
• Fixed: Compressed files not stored
• Fixed: SVG fixes
• Fixed: Raw HTML responses
• Fixed: 406 error workaround
• Fixed: Crashes due to binary files with bogus HTML type (not parsed anymore)
• Fixed: External https and ftp links broken, relative https links broken
• Fixed: Automatic resizing of filter stack
• Fixed: Various ampersand (&) elements added
• Fixed: https with proxy temporary workaround (direct connection)
• Fixed: "base href" with absolute uris
• Fixed: stack frame too large on some systems
• Fixed: random bad requests due to bogus authentication
• Shell: Several fixes, including registration type problems
• Shell: "template files not found" fixed
  
  

3.16-2

• Fixed: Zlib v1.4
• Fixed: Gzipped files now downloaded without problems (HTTP compression bug)
• Fixed: Ending spaces in URLs now handled correctly
• Fixed: META-HTTP bug
• Shell: Type registration done only once
  
  

3.15

• Fixed: Bogus HTTP-referer with protected sites
• Fixed: Fatal IO/socket error with large sites (handles not closed)
• Fixed: K4 option now works
• Fixed: --continue+URL(s) now clears previous URLs
• Fixed: Parsing bug with 'www.foo.com?query'
• Shell: 'Soft cancel' documented
• Shell: 'Kx' options added
  
  

3.10

• Fixed: Broken pipes on Linux version
• Fixed: Commandline version bug with gzipped files
• Fixed: Crash when reaching compressed error pages
• Fixed: Bogus html-escaped characters in query strings
• Fixed: Files skipped (bogus anticipating system)
• Fixed: Crash when showing stats (div by zero)
• Fixed: Problems with URLs/redirects containing spaces or quotes
• Fixed: Slash added when ~ detected
• Fixed: Ugly VT terminal
• New: Faster and cleaner mirror interrupt
  
  

3.09

• Fixed: Several problems with javascript parsing
• Fixed: Elements after onXXX not parsed
• New: Source update wrapper
• New: Style url() and @import parsed
• Shell: Word database and maximum number of links
• Shell: Option changes taken in account immediately
• Shell: Cleaner installer (registry keys)
  
  

3.08

• New: HTTP compression is now supported
• New: Faster response analysis
• Fixed: External page in html if cgi
• Fixed: Mix between CR and CR/LF for comments
• Fixed: Top index corrupted
• Shell: Better refresh during parsing
• Shell: DLL error
  
  

3.07

• Fixed: Random crashes with HTTP redirects
• New: New rate limiter (should be sharper)
• New: Code cleaned up, new htscore.c/httrack.c files
  
  

3.06

• Fixed: Redirect to https/mailto now supported
• New: Top index/top dir for Un*x version
• New: Sources more modular (.so)
• New: Quicktime targetX= tags
• New: HTTP 100 partially supported
  
  

3.05

• Fixed: Non-scannable tag parameters ("id","name",..)
• Fixed: Java classes not found when using "." as separator
• Fixed: Java classes not found when missing .class
  
  

3.04

• Fixed: URLs with starting spaces
• Fixed: bogus URLs when using "base href"
• Shell: --assume and -%e options included
• New: Documentation updated a little
  
  

3.03

• New: Parser optimizations, 10 times faster now!
• New: New --assume option to speed up cgi tests
• New: Option to avoid Username/password storage for external pages
• New: Query string kept for local URIs
• Fixed: RFC2396 compliant URLs accepted (//foo and http:foo)
• Fixed: foo@foo.com not considered as URL anymore
• Fixed: Space encoded into %20 in URIs
• Fixed: "Unable to save file" bug
• Fixed: Corrupted top index.html
• Fixed: Cookies disabled with --get
• Fixed: Cache bug for error pages
  
  

3.02

• Fixed: Pages without title recorded in top index
• Fixed: Error with Content-type+Content-disposition
• Fixed: backblue.gif/external.html files not purged anymore
• Fixed: Encoding problems with files containing %2F or other characters
• Fixed: Write error reported for HTML files
• New: hts-stop.lock file to pause the engine
• New: New install system using InnoSetup
  
  

3.01

• New: HTTP real media files captured
• Fixed: Bogus statitics
• Fixed: Minor fixes
  
  

3.00

• New: New interface, with MANY improvements!
• New: Better parsing (enhanced javascript parsing, sharper HTML parsing)
• New: Faster and more efficient background download system
• New: ETag properly handled
• New: Optional URL list
• New: Optionnal config file
• New: New structure options
• New: New filters options (size filters)
• New: Better password site handling
• New: Traffic control to avoid server overload
• New: Setuid and Chroot for Unix release
• New: limited 64-bit handling
• New: .js files are now parsed
• New: Single hts-log.txt file, error level
• New: New top index.html design
• New: "Update hack" option to prevent unnecessary updates
• New: Default language sent for mirrors
• New: Searchable index
• Fixed: Bogus ftp routines (Linux version)
• Fixed: Bug that caused to mirror a complete site from a subdir
• Fixed: Bug that caused restart to be very slow
• Fixed: Bug that caused loops on several query-string pages (?foo=/)
• Fixed: Corrupted cache bug
• Fixed: Random broken links (pages not downloaded)
• Fixed: Shared links problems
• Fixed: Bogus URLs with commas (,)
• Fixed: Bogus / and \ mixed
• Fixed: Bogus addresses with multiple @
• Fixed: Bogus links with %2E and %2F
• Fixed: Bogus empty links
• Fixed: "Unexpected backing error" bug fixed
• Fixed: Files with incorrect size no more accepted
• Fixed: Top index.html created even for untitled pages
• Fixed: Bogus N100 option (unable to save file)
• Fixed: Deadlock when using many hosts in URLs
• Fixed: Password stored internally to avoid access errors
• Fixed: Fixed /nul DOS limit
• Fixed: Bogus -* filter (nothing mirrored)
• Fixed: .shtml now renamed into .html
• Fixed: Content-disposition without ""
• Fixed: External html page for /foo links
• Fixed: Username/password % compliant
• Fixed: Javascript parser sometimes failed with " and ' mixed
• Fixed: Some Range: bugs when regeting complete files
• Fixed: Range: problems with html files
• Fixed: HTTP/1.1 407 and 416 messages now handled
• Fixed: Bogus timestamp
• Fixed: Null chars in HTML bug
• Fixed: Error pages cache bug
• Fixed: Connect error/site moved do not delete everything anymore!
• Fixed: Bogus garbage ../ in relative URL
• Shell: New transfer rate estimation
• Shell: Fixed crash when using verbose wizard
• Shell: dynamic lang.h for easier translation updates
• Shell: Fixed some options not passed to the engine
• Fixed: A lots of minor fixes!
  
  

2.2 Note: 3.00 alpha major bug fixes are included in the 2.2

2.02

• New: Cache system improved, compatible with all platforms
• New: Update process improved (accurate date)
• New: Remote timestamp for files
• New: ETag (HTTP/1.1) supported
• Shell: Portugese interface available
• Fixed: Bug with links containing commas
• Fixed: 'file://' bug with proxy
• New: Engine a little bit faster
• Shell: Some bugs fixed in the interface
  
  

2.01

• New: ftp through proxy finally supported!
• New: Sources cleaned up
• New: Again some new marvelous options
• New: Speed improved (links caught during parsing, faster "fast update")
• New: Tool to catch "submit" URL (forms or complex javascript links)
• Shell: German interface available
• Shell: Dutch interface available
• Shell: Polish interface available
• Fixed: Level 1 bug fixed
• Fixed: Still some parsing/structure problems
• Fixed: Referer now sent to server
• Fixed: Cookies did not work properly
• Fixed: Problems with redirect pages
• New: Better javascript parsing
• Fixed: Problems with URL-parameters (foo.cgi?param=2&choice=1)
• Fixed: Problems with ftp
• New: ftp transfers are now in passive mode (firewall compliant)
  
  

2.00 -- The First Free Software Release of HTTrack!

• New: HTTrack sources (command line), now free software, are given
• Shell: Interface rewritten!
• New: Documentation rewritten
• Shell: Drag&Drop abilities
• Shell: More URL informations
• Shell: Fixed: Remote access problems
• Fixed: Loop problems on some sites causing crashes
• Fixed: URL encoding problems
• Fixed: Some file access problems for ../
• Fixed: Some fixes for updating a mirror
• Shell: Crazy progress bar fixed
• Fixed: Form action are rewritten so that cgi on form can work from an offline mirror
• Fixed: Crashes after continuing an "hand-interrupted" mirror
• Fixed: Bogus files with some servers (chunk bug)
  
  

1.30

• Shell: Interface improved
• New: robots.txt are followed by default
• New: Parsing speed improved on big (>10,000 links) sites with an hash table
• New: Mirror Link mode (mirror all links in a page)
• New: Cookies are now understood
• New: No external pages option (replace external html/gif by default files)
• New: Command line version improved, background on Unix releases
• Fixed: Problems with javascript parsing
• Fixed: Username/password not set to lowercase anymore
• Fixed: Problems with base href
• New: Links in level 1 html files now patched
• New: Expurge now deletes unused folders
• New: Option -V executes shell command for every new file
• Shell: Primary filter now works
  
  

1.24

• Fixed: Ftp protocol bogus (with login/pass)
• Fixed: Cache problems (corrupted files)
• New: Expurge old files for updates
• New: "Updated" messages for mirror updates
• Shell: Autodial/hangup option to RAS
• Fixed: index.html were not created sometimes
• Shell: Fixed: Random crashes with the interface
• Shell: Fixed: Filters profile not saved
• Fixed: Various (and numerous) fixes
  
  

1.23

• Shell: Interface improved
• Shell: Multiple setups
• Shell: Redefine options
• Shell: Continue interrupted mirror improved
  
  

1.22

• Fixed: Parsing up/down did not work well
• Fixed: Several files not catched, bugs fixes
• Fixed: Problems with classes (1.21)
• New: Transfer rate can be limited (-A option)
• Shell: Smooth refresh
• New: ftp basic protocol a little bit improved
  
  

1.21

• Fixed: Several java classes were not parsed
• Fixed: Some folders without ending / ignored
• Fixed: Crashes due to content-type too long
  
  

1.20

• Shell: documentation!
• Fixed: Some problems with 'host cancel' system after timeouts (crashes)
• New: Get only end of files if possible (file partially get)
• New: New cache system (only HTML stored)
• New: User-defined structure possible
• New: Also available: french interface
• Fixed: Random crashes (div by 0/illegal instruction) with null size files
• New: Limited ftp protocol (files only), e.g. +ftp://* now works
• Fixed: Some connect problems with several servers or proxies
• New: New option, save html error report by default
• Shell: Browse and see log files at the end of a mirror
• New: Proxy authentication (ex: guest:star@myproxy.com:8080)
• Shell: Interface improved (especially during mirror)
• Fixed: Ambiguous files are renamed (asp,cgi->html/gif..)
• Shell: New test link mode option
• New: Site authentication (ex: guest:star@www.myweb.com/index.html)
• Fixed: Minor bugs fixed
• Shell: See log files during a mirror
• Fixed: Some problems using CGI (different names now)
• Fixed: Go down/up/both options and filters
• Fixed: "Store html first" did not work
• New: -F option ("Browser ID") disguise HTTrack into a browser
• New: New filter system
• Shell: New "Save as default" options
• Fixed: "Build options" did NOT work properly! (files overwritten or missing)
• Fixed: User agent ID fixed
• Shell: Skip options
• Shell: Better interface control during mirrors
• Shell: InstallShield and Help files
• Fixed: Some external links were not filtered sometimes
• Fixed: Mirror crash at the end
  
  

1.16b

• Shell: Really *stupid* bug fixed causing WinHTTrack to be slooow
• Fixed: Crash if the first page has no title fixed
• Fixed: Bogus options like "Just scan" saved empty files
• Fixed: Forbid all links (*) with manual accept did not work
• Shell: Filters interface improved

1.16:

• New : Java Classes and subclasses are now retrieved!
• New: Better JavaScripts parsing
• New: Option: Abandon slowest hosts if timeout/transfer too slow
• Shell: Interface improved
  
  

1.15b

• Fixed: Some bugs fixed

1.15:

• Shell: Interface improved
• New: Robot improved (some files through javascript are now detected!)
• New: Improved wild cards (for example, +www.*.com/*.zip)
• New: 'config' file to configurate proxy, path.. only once
  
  

1.11

• New: Wait for specific time (begin transfer at specific hour)
• New: Time limit option (stops transfer after x seconds)
• Shell: Interface improved for an easy use
  
  

1.10e

• Fixed: Maps were not correctly managed (stupid bug)

1.10d:

• Fixed: Bogus index.html fixed

1.10c

• Shell: "Time out" field needed "transfer rate" field

1.10b

• Fixed: Better memory management

1.10

• New: "Transfer rate out" option added (abandon slowests sites)
• New: "Deaf" hosts do not freeze HTTrack any more
• Fixed: Again problems with code/codebase tags
• New: Broken links detection improved
  
  

1.04

• Fixed:Some links were not correctly read (pages with "codebase" tags)
• Shell: Interface improved
  
  

1.03 (No changes for the command-line robot)

• Shell: Big bug fixed! (VERY slow transfer rates..)
  
  

1.02

• Fixed: Some java files were not correctly transfered
• New: Speed has been improved
• Fixed: Log file more accurate
• Shell: Interface has been improved
  
  

1.01

• Fixed: Structure check error in some cases
  
  

1.00 -- The 1.00, Yeah!

• New: base and codebase are now scanned
  
  

0.998 beta-2

• Fixed: Multiple name bug (files having the same name in the same directory) with -O option fixed
  
  

0.997 beta-2

• Fixed: Filenames with '%' were not correctly named
• Fixed: Bug detected in 0.996: several files are not written on disk!!
  
  

0.996 beta-2

• New: -O option (path for mirror and log)
• New: Unmodified file time/date are not changed during an update
  
  

0.99 beta-2

• New: User-agent field
• New: Shortcuts (--spider etc.)
• New: Links not retrieved are now rebuilt absolutly
• New: The 'g' option (juste get files in current directory) has been added
• New: Primary links analyste has been improved
• Fixed: "304" bug fixed
  
  

0.25 beta-2

• Fixed: Freeze during several mirrors fixed!
• New: More 'N' options (filenames type)
  
  

0.24 beta-2

• Fixed: Restart/Update with cache did not work (really not..)
• Fixed: Wild cards now work properly (e.g. +www.abc.com* do works)
• New: The 'n' option (get non-html files near a link) has been added!
  
  

0.23 beta-2

• Fixed: The 'M' option (site size) did not work
• Fixed: Files larger than 65Kb were not correctly written
  
  

older beta

• Many, many bugs fixed