WebCopier for Pocket PC 4.2 Now Available

[Bob Russell]

There's another way to download web content for viewing remotely. It's called WebCopier from MaximumSoft Corp. Today's news release includes the following summary...

MaximumSoft Corp. today announced the release of WebCopier for Pocket PC 4.2. The program allows to download entire Web sites, store them locally and view them later view them on desktop computers or Pocket PCs, at users’ convenience. WebCopier provides access to the downloaded information at any time, no matter where its users are, no Internet connection is required.

I'm not familiar with the product, but am interested to learn more about what its high points are. I've asked MaximumSoft for some more info, and I'll let you know what I find out. They've got some tough competition with iSiloX, Sunrise, Plucker, etc but each piece of software tends to have it's own strengths. More information is available at the product site.

Other products are available for offline browsing with Mac and Windows, but no indication of a PalmOS version.

[hacker]

Great, another spider to block... WebCopier (375 hits so far in this month's logs on my end) didn't request robots.txt once, it just proceeded to pound the server for as much as it would send, as fast as it could.

Nope, sorry... blocked. Next?

[Bob Russell]

Originally Posted by hacker

Great, another spider to block... WebCopier (375 hits so far in this month's logs on my end) didn't request robots.txt once, it just proceeded to pound the server for as much as it would send, as fast as it could.

Nope, sorry... blocked. Next?

Hacker,
I'm curious, from a web site admin perspective on things, what sorts of spiders are out there and which ones you'd consider good/bad in their approach. For example, with WebCopier you mention that they didn't request robots.txt. What is that, and why should they request it? Thks!