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[Trivia] Why can't I make ILB available offline?

[The Thief]

My guess is because of the way the website is put together. I'm not very experienced in the area of HTML, but it could be related to the how when one refreshes it, it is different then how it was before.

Goddamn, my grammar was bad right there.

[Nola]

The reason I ask is because I've never encountered a website that cannot be synchronized (although I've never really looked for one either)

I understand your point about the refreshes (thought about before posting), but all that would do is make your local copy outdated as soon as it's synched, and it's no different than looking at the page for ten minutes without refreshing.

But it is clear that the site creator does not want us to synch to this.

Is anyone experienced in this kind of security? What is to be gained by synchronizing, or even by hacking this username/password?

BTW, the message I received is as follows:

Error: Login Falied (Name/password refused)

[Nola]

OMG!!!!!!!

[Lysit]

Try file and save as.

No problems in firefox.

Even gives you the macromedia countdown code.

Countdown();
function Countdown()
{
currentDate = new Date();
targetDate = chinatime;
//alert(targetDate);
diff = targetDate.getTime() - currentDate.getTime();
diffSecs = Math.floor(diff/1000);
diffMins = Math.floor(diffSecs/60);
diffHours = Math.floor(diffMins/60);
diffDays = Math.floor(diffHours/24);
milliseconds = diff % 1000;
seconds = diffSecs % 60;
mins = diffMins % 60;
hours = diffHours % 24;
days = diffDays;
millisecondsStr = "";
if (milliseconds < 10){
millisecondsStr = "00"+milliseconds;
}
else if (milliseconds < 100){
millisecondsStr = "0"+milliseconds;
}
else millisecondsStr = milliseconds+"";
secondsStr = (seconds < 10 ? "0"+seconds : seconds+"");
minsStr = (mins < 10 ? "0"+mins : mins+"");
hoursStr = (hours < 10 ? "0"+hours : hours+"");
daysStr = (days < 10 ? "0"+days : days+"");

document.getElementById("counter").innerText = daysStr + ":" + hoursStr + ":" + minsStr + ":" + secondsStr + ":" + millisecondsStr;
setTimeout("Countdown()", 99);
}

[Nola]

I'm talking about making the entire site available offline, links and all... is that what you tried? Save as only lets you save one page at a time, right?

[voipme]

I have to admit, that's going to be pretty tough. You'll have to develop a program that cycles in the text into the JPG images every few minutes or so. There's a lot of background work going on behind the site that we don't see. I bet 10 e-dollars that you'll have to make a database (most likely SQL) and possibly use ASP pages. You're in for a ton of work.

[Lysit]

Did it in IE and it didn't ask for a password, seems alot shows up in IE though that doesn't in firefox, I shall see what I can do.

[number8]

I don't think you can synch it, and you are not meant to. Also there would be no point. The site works by inserting those text that you see to the html while they are requested. The same is for the text in the images. That why everytime you refresh, the source code is different.

But synch it offline, then you only limit yourself to only one copy of the page, which doesn't really give you much information, as new info is presented randomly each time you refresh.

If you want to work offline, you might as well synch to the Wiki instead.

[BrianEnigma]

I do not know what program you are using, but the command line program "wget" seems to grab a snapshot of it just fine. wget is included with most Unix-like operating systems and is part of the Cygwin bundle under Windows. For instance, I was able to run:

wget -p -k --mirror http://ilovebees.com

and end up with this copy of the site stored at:

http://bees.netninja.com/mirrors/20040727/ilovebees.com/

Admittedly, it is just a snapshot. The dynamic text inserts are never going to change when looking at this copy of the site.