Today, we had a client call us and ask if we can 'save' their website from an aggressive website designer that is holding their site hostage. I told them yes and thought an easy solution would be to find a utility that allowed us to easily clone/grab their website. I must say, I was surprised at the difficulty in finding a free utility to do this.
Part of the problem came from the search terms I started with. I thought this would be called a 'site grabber' - and many paid utilities thought the same :) I then switched to Website Clone, but to no avail. Finally, I that download.com called these utilities "Offline Browsers". Doing a quick search for Offline Browser struck gold!
I found an open-source utility called HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com/) that does exactly what I needed. Website saved!
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