WebSnake Intelligent Pull Technology and Download Filters Forrest Stroud
Intelligent Pull Technology and Download Filters
As with other offline browsers, WebSnake allows you to download entire Web sites and then view them at a later time. However, unlike most of its competition, WebSnake goes far beyond this single task. Using intelligent pull technology, WebSnake can help you search for specific keywords on a Web site -- almost like having your own personal Web search engine for a site (only quite a bit slower than normal Web search engines). This function is most useful when you need to search Web sites that lack their own search agents.
You can also use WebSnake to retrieve specific types of files using intelligent filters. The filters make it possible for you to grab all the graphics, movies, sound bytes, or specific Web pages from a Web site. WebSnake can also provide users with the structure of a remote Web site by building a map of the site's HTML file references. The resulting map gives users an overview of the Web site's structure in a tree format.
