Does anyone know how to save webpages from secured sites to file? And in what file format should they be saved? (eg: .html)We're in the middle of making the office as paperless as possible, so instead of photcopying we're starting to scan everything to file.A problem that we're finding is there are still things we have to print that we'd prefer to save to file - like web pages!In the line of work I'm in, we have to do credit checks on the internet and so far we haven't had much luck in getting the credit reports to save to file successfully. Keep in mind that it is a secured website, so we have to log in before accessing any of the information & this could affect the way it needs to be saved. (for successful viewing later once logged out of the site)We've attempted saving the pages on the harddrive but they just don't seem to work. It makes a file but there is no info in it when you open it. (Like when you attempt to load a webpage & it doesn't work - there's blank bits & crosses where it's failed). We know another company has managed to do it in the past, so it is possible.Please help! Some knowledge would be greatly appreciated!
im far from an expert...but,... why dont you just use 'PRINT SCREEN' and paste it in word or paint then save it from there :?) LaterZ Chris :-Z
Depends on how much info you want saved. If the text is all you need then click file, save as as change, the selection down the bottom to "Text file"This will save all of the text data for opening later but will not save the pretty pictures.
But if the page has frames> which you cannot easily tell at the time, you will only get the header frame which will often not provide all the data from each sub frame delivered up from the search results etc. If you want to save the exact text that appears from screen then use ROM_vg30dett's PRINT SCREEN (damn man, get a simpler nickname !!! ) ... or if you want to have a soft copy, there are two ways 1: click next to the text you want then CTRL-A to select all text from the relevant frame and paste into wordpad, MS word etc or 2 ... you can usually "right-click" next to the text you want to save and <View Source>. This will open a text document with all the back end HTML which you can save as "XYX.html" then view later using your browser...
The idea behind secure pages... ...is so that info cannot be viewed when insecure (ie saved after). Print Screen is the first option I can think of and is what I use. Just a thought on the fly now tho would be, that if you have Acrobat installed, try printing the page from the web browser to Adobe Distiller and then saving the page as a pdf. I haven't tested this, just thinking out loud. Lemme know if you want me to try it and see if it works
Answers here Secure pages or SSL secure socket layer can be saved<P>the crosses you refer to are image holders for the site, you cant just right click and save target as or you will get the missing images, you need to use the following method<LI>Save the exact page with the data you want to your favourites<LI>Make sure you click the box to make the page available offline (this is important as it downloads all the images to fill the placeholders)<P>When you need to access that data its as easy as working offline and opening internet explorer and opening favorites and clicking the relevant page.<P>This option works for me but bear in mind im on windows 2000 profesional as windows XP is to exploitable and looks like fisher price made it. hope this helps
have you tried this >> So you've tried using the "Save As..." option under the "File" menu and saving it as "Web page, complete".Funnily enough I'm a Software Architect for Credit Card processing software.
mark... see, i know your name now you can use mine instead of my nick, i say it at the bottom of almost all my posts LaterZ CHRIS :-Z
We're kinda hoping to save the page as it's laid out - frames and all I suppose. Otherwise some of the staff might lose the plot! hehe
Think that's one of the things we tried & didn't work... will give it another go in a sec & see. Dammed secure sites! :><
Tried again... still didn't work.... Well it sort of did - only on the computer it was done on though. (Grabbed from the history) We need to be able to save it to file in such a way that it can be viewed on any computer - and emailed to another branch when required.
Unfortunately it's not just the computer that originally views & saves the page that always opens it again later. We're on a network so it may be opened on another computer & we also need to email it to the other branch at times. We do know it can be saved as a file (just not sure of what format) as it's done by another company. I'd ask 'em how they do it but they're the competition..!
We don't seem to have Print Screen? Oh - and we're using XP btw..hehe... much to Psycho's delight I'm sure..! I might be able to work out some way of sending it to a pdf... not sure... will do some more experimenting.
easy solution...i think go to the page you want......then print it (hardcopy), then scan it on your comp and save it as a pdf. now tell me why that couldnt work.LaterZ Chris :-Z
ok - I just tried it then and I used "File" / "Save As..." / and then choose "Web Archive, single file *.mht" on a https website. Then double clicking on that saved file would open it up in Internet Explorer ok on both my machine that is was saved on and another machine I emailed the file to.
Print Screen Is a button on the keyboard to the right of the F keys. Normally near Scroll Lock and Paure Break.By pushing print screen, that will take a shot of everything on the screen and hold it in memory. You will then need to "paste" it into word or mspaint or something like that.Helpful tip: Alt + Prnt Scrn only takes copies the window you're in.What I meant by Adobe, is if you have Adobe Acrobat (the full program, not just the reader) it installs a Virtual Printer called Adobe Distiller. If you "print" to that, it should ask to save whatever you're trying to print as a pdf file.
