Forum Downloader is a program that allows you to download forums and saves them locally for offline viewing and searching. It can also save linked images, images linked using thumbnails, attachments, or other files linked in posts.
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corrected: DNS search did not work if an IP was given instead of a domain name corrected: forbidden words were not searched in anchors when checking forum links corrected: if an anchor had a HTML tag the text was ignored corrected: an error in parsing procedures for HTTP headers caused random crashes added: detection for wordpress blogs, an attempt to enumerate blog archives is made (old versions and new versions are supported) added: detection for blogspot blogs (if no blog archives are found, blogger's search function is used to enumerate results as archives) archive enumeration for blogs go back to 2003 for WordPress and to 2000 for Blogspot (when no linked archives are found), the "select forums" function can be used to select which archives will be used for some Blogspot setups an intermediary index for topics is generated (if the title is not linked in original blog archive) the link search procedures were improved to detect more links the imageshack.us detection was adjusted according to their website changes more images linked with thumbnails are detected from various websites
corrected: DNS search did not work if an IP was given instead of a domain name corrected: forbidden words were not searched in anchors when checking forum links corrected: if an anchor had a HTML tag the text was ignored corrected: an error in parsing procedures for HTTP headers caused random crashes added: detection for wordpress blogs, an attempt to enumerate blog archives is made (old versions and new versions are supported) added: detection for blogspot blogs (if no blog archives are found, blogger's search function is used to enumerate results as archives) archive enumeration for blogs go back to 2003 for WordPress and to 2000 for Blogspot (when no linked archives are found), the "select forums" function can be used to select which archives will be used for some Blogspot setups an intermediary index for topics is generated (if the title is not linked in original blog archive) the link search procedures were improved to detect more links the imageshack.us detection was adjusted according to their website changes more images linked with thumbnails are detected from various websites
corrected: an error in history procedures prevented some files from being downloaded added: detection for 3xforum, also converting posted links to direct links without the redir.php intermediary script new events for scripts: :forumsearch and :topicsearch if login information is set, new cookies received while downloading topics will be updated HTTP headers can be shown in real time while downloading a forum on HTTP debugger page the resolver from HTTP debugger page can also search for other hosted websites on same IP the history has been optimised, searches for duplicates are faster
corrected: an error in history procedures prevented some files from being downloaded added: detection for 3xforum, also converting posted links to direct links without the redir.php intermediary script new events for scripts: :forumsearch and :topicsearch if login information is set, new cookies received while downloading topics will be updated HTTP headers can be shown in real time while downloading a forum on HTTP debugger page the resolver from HTTP debugger page can also search for other hosted websites on same IP the history has been optimised, searches for duplicates are faster
corrected: error while creating request headers for scripts corrected: some allocated buffers for scripts were not freed corrected: if "abort" was clicked forum downloader was still waiting for timeout corrected: escaped unicode characters were incorrectly converted in file names corrected: UTF-8 characters were not converted in file names corrected: fragmented HTTP headers were not handled correctly corrected: download statistics were displayed with a wrong percentage added: new options: "always on top" and "save settings" added: new option to generate local indexes for downloaded topics, attachments and external links added: support for Google's translation while downloading a forum to save the forum translated to another language if a server returns error 500, forum downloader will retry the download according to the settings related to connection timeouts proxy settings are now applied to all downloads and uploads made by scripts for links that have no associated scripts, a default script will be used (default.txt). download statistics are shown for scripted downloads with options to abort or skip the file scripted downloads are also checked against blacklisted addresses
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