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Post by sAner on Aug 7, 2004 6:11:02 GMT 2
Heya guys, Since a long time I make archives of e-bay pages - of auctions with abnormal high final prices-. I put them on my website on the page "Expensive auctions". Since yesterday I noticed e-bay doesn't allow one to make these webarchives anymore. It used to be so simple; go to the url of the specific auction, click "save as" and then choose "as webarchive - single file (*.mht)". It always worked but since yesterday my computer said: "couldn't save file to selected destiny". I tried again, tried different e-bay auctions and when it didn't work I first thought it had to be my computer or harddisk. Then I tried to save a non-ebay webpage and it worked! I must come to the conclusion that e-bay did something to their HTML to prevent people to save webpages ... Doesn't anyone have an idea to go around this? Or do you know why e-bay did it? ---> privacy? Sounds stupid as the auctions are public anyway. Your thoughts on this matter would be appreciated as I can't update my expensive auctions page nomore. Regards, sAner
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Post by mpanayiotakis on Aug 7, 2004 9:31:16 GMT 2
Pieter, I have no problem saving the entire page in my hard disk using Opera. What browser are you using ? Have you tried another ?
Michael
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Post by linuxgeek on Aug 8, 2004 16:52:31 GMT 2
Weird. Does it work with other pages. I dont use Internet Explorer sorry, I would guess any blocking stuff they use would only apply to that browser though. Nothing stopping you doing "save webpage as..." you just save the graphics which are on the screen...
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Post by sAner on Aug 9, 2004 6:34:45 GMT 2
Hey guys, thanks for the info. It seems that only explorer has this kinda problem. I still don't get why e-bay suddenly decided to do this. sAner Ps-Mike, can you gimme the link to a free download to Opera??
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Post by mpanayiotakis on Aug 9, 2004 15:35:31 GMT 2
Because they can! ;D And because Internet Explorer is a completely crap program!
Michael
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