[support] support Digest, Vol 55, Issue 25

[Cheryl Chase]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 5:00 AM, support-request at drupal.org wrote:

> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Cheryl Chase wrote:
>> I would like to create a static html archive of my drupal site (on a
>> regular basis, for corporate compliance reasons related to
>> documenting previous states of the publicly published information).
>>
>> I have referred to the drupal manual page at http://drupal.org/node/
>> 27882. But I have two problems (because I am simply archiving a
>> snapshot of the site, not retiring it, so I don't want to interfere
>> with the normal, drupal-based, dynamic operation).
>>
>> 1. When I use any of the download tools (wget, sitesucker, I've not
>> yet tried httrack) to download the site, the function
>> drupal_get_html_head in file includes/common.inc outputs a directive
>> ". This causes the downloaded pages to contain links which try to
>> open the original site on the Internet, rather than the local file  
>> copy.
>
> I'm afraid the directive didn't come through.  Which one do you  
> mean? :-)

The base directive (sorry, I used html and it was stripped out).

>
>> 2. I would like to be logged in as a special user, named "archive",
>> which is configured specially for archive purposes. For instance, it
>> has no permission to search; it displays a custom block that tells
>> that this is an archived version of the website, and states the date
>> on which it was archived, etc. This works for me when I manually
>> login as user "archive". How to get a downloading tool to login as a
>> drupal user (they are good at http authentication, but have no
>> understanding of drupal authentication).
>
> If you log in as that user, you can check in the database and see  
> what the
> session variable is for that user.  wget (and probably the others)  
> can be set
> to send a specific cookie with each request, and you can just give  
> it that
> value.  See the man page for the exact syntax, as I don't recall it  
> at the
> moment.

But then, wouldn't I have to manually login first? I'm trying to  
create an automated procedure.

Cheryl


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