wget has a convert option:
-k
--convert-links
After the download is complete, convert the links in the document to
make them suitable for local
viewing.
it mentions absolute links, but not fully-qualified links, so YMMV
-barry
On Oct 31, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Arch Angel wrote:
> Have you considered grepping through the files searching for the hard coded
> portion of the code which is the same across the board and change that to
> the location on the dev box? Might take a nix box an hour or so but should
> get nearly all of them. Only true way to be sure is search all the code
> line by line. If it is that important that you don't hit the prod box I
> would spend the time and effort to do so.
>
> Also a year or so back Paul and Larry talked about a way to clone a site
> and pull it down to a local machine and run all the pages locally, but I
> can't recall exactly what they did. Sorry, hopefully Bugbear, Paul, or
> Larry can recall that one to help you. My old age and all, I don't recall
> as well as I used too. What were we discussing anyway :-)
>
> - Robert
> (arch3angel)
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Patrick Laverty <[email protected]
>> wrote:
>
>> Ok, newbie here...
>>
>> I was asked to scan a web site that we were told is vulnerable. So I'm
>> copying the site over to my Dev server and each time I manually click
>> on links, I see it sends my request to production. I went through the
>> .htaccess file and changed everything to point to my Dev server. It
>> still goes to prod. I dig in a little further and sure enough, most of
>> the links in the hundreds of pages are hardcoded to the prod site.
>>
>> What's the safest way to get around this? Set the /etc/hosts file on
>> my scanning machine to point to my Dev server? I want to make 100%
>> sure that my scan never hits the production server.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Thank you.
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