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2010年2月25日星期四

Beware of “Web Page, complete” when saving HTML pages with your browser  

Every now and then I need to ask a client or another developer to save a copy of a web page and email it to me. Mostly it is because they are viewing a page that is behind a firewall and I need to see the markup. Something that happens a lot is that they send me HTML that is more or less mangled.

This HTML mangling happens when you choose “Web Page, complete” or a similarly named option in your web browser. With this option selected, browsers don’t save just the HTML source of the page â€" they also save any associated images, stylesheets, javascript files and other resources and change all references to those files to make them point to the locally saved copy.

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