History
Spiderzilla 1.06 (12 Nov 2003)
- support httrack 3.30
- add new localizations (French - by Paul Lacourse
,Czech- by Pavel Cvrcek)
Spiderzilla 1.05 (29 Jun 2003)
- add 20 option of: Cache , Index , Log , Build sites
- fixed actions from first window of extension
- fixed in *NIX version permisions of files
Spiderzilla 1.04 (21 Jun 2003)
- add 22 options of : Flow Control , Expert Options , Spider Options , Links Options
Spiderzilla 1.03 (19 Jun 2003)
- actualization of engine to 3-23
- add 4 options to setting Limits
Spiderzilla 1.02 (16 Jun 2003)
- from this version Spiderzilla runs on Firebird
Spiderzilla 1.01 (May 2003)
- Linux version of Spiderzilla
Spiderzilla 1.0 (March 2003)
- add Proxy Set
- actualization of engine to 3-22-3
Spiderzilla first versions
contributed
by Antonio Vinci
from April 2002
Get it
SpiderZilla
SpiderZilla is intended to be a Netscape/Mozilla/Firebird
extension for
offline
browsing. Basically, it is only a front-end for the opensource command
line program HTTrack Website Copier
. "It allows you to download a World Wide website from the Internet to
a local directory,building recursively all structures, getting html,
images, and other files from the server to your computer. Links are
rebuiltrelatively so that you can freely browse to the local site
(works with any browser). You can mirror several sites together so that
you can jump from one to another. You can, also, update an existing
mirror site, or resume an interrupted download"- HTTrack
description . Run SpiderZilla by Tools > "Download this site"
Spiderzilla for Windows 9x/Me/2k/XP
In this version SpiderZilla has Httrack inside the package. SpiderZilla is installing to aplication directory (Administrator permissions required)
Install
spiderzilla.xpi (848 kb)
Download spiderzilla.xpi (848 kb)
Spiderzilla for GNU/Linux (or other *nix systems)
This version is working only when you have xfree installed and httrack. Why Xfree? Because Spiderzilla is using xterm . Httrack You can install from sources for example from this address httrack-3.30.tgz . To install httrack write 3 commands "./configure" +Enter +"make"+ Enter+ "make install". For more information look to www.httrack.com. SpiderZilla is installing to aplication directory , root permisions required.
Install
spiderzilla_lin.xpi (22 kb)
Download spiderzilla_lin.xpi
(22 kb)
Integration with
PreferenceToolbar2
after installation Spiderzilla , we can create own button
in
"prefbar" the command for this button will be "runSpiderZilla()" .
Screenshots of SpiderZilla: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
To Do
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Unregister/Uninstall
I'm planning to use script from Shimoda Hiroshi liblary
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Instalation to profile
It should be easy , only need a bit of free time :)
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Spiderzilla for Windows should use the Win-httrack installed in system
Take information about httrack path from Windows registry , I don't know how do that .
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Httrack working in Mozilla window , like pgp by enigmail
This is somewhere in enigmail code.
Dreams
Dreams for future of SpiderZilla are still the same like Antonio's
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Although running HTTrack as an external executable can have some advantages, I think it better to make an XPCOM interface for it, for a better integration and not to use protozilla. It should be easy to do and take only a bit of time, but since I'm not a c programmer, I don't know how to do.
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The best solution, of course, is to rewrite entirely the spider's engine using only Javascript and Mozilla's necko library (or JsLib). In this way, the programm will be available for really all platforms, and the package dimension extremely small. It would be possible to easily implement some features that httrack doesn't support yet (as https).
This should be not very difficult, but it needs more time.
Maintain the Project
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I should move it to mozdev , but CVS client's don't wont to work by proxy in my LAN. I reserved acconunt but still there are no chance to connect with it :( .