clone website - How do I clone a website that requires a login and has .asp index files

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There is a website I want to clone

Its index is /Default.asp

If you access it directly, it'll redirect you to /Login/Login.asp

Then you login and it redirects you back to /Default.asp

And Default.asp has a lot of inputs, that are on the same and other files - screenshot (the .asp files have arguments on them - screenshot 1 screenshot 2)

I need to clone this entire website with every single function working offline and not redirecting to the original website

Can someone help me?

1 Answers

Then you need to go to the developers of that site and ask them for the source code - perhaps a copy is on GIT? You can't clone the web site anymore then if I give you a desktop program with a .exe.

ASP.NET sites are driven by c#, or vb.net COMPILED code behind. The markup will be asp.net pages, but the code is NOT included with such pages. I effect, if you download the web pages from a site, you get next to nothing of value, since the code behind that does the real work to make the page operate is built in c#, or vb.net. And that means all of teh business rules and function of the site is NOT in the web pages, but in fact in the code behind that is compiled, and without source code, but more important is not included with the web pages.

So, you not only need the "source code" of that web site, but in near all cases, you ALSO need the Visual Studio applcation and project that the web site was created without. Without the Visual Studio source code project, then you have next to nothing of value here.

So, downloading some web pages will get you some html - of zero value. You need the working Visual Studio project - including the source code for that project.

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