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.

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 For instance, it has no permission to search; it displays a custom block that tells that this is an archived version of the website, and states the date on which it was archived, etc.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).

Thanks,

Cheryl