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A "website", "web site" or just "site" is a graphical presentation consisting of a collection of web pages. A website is often generated by a web server and presented through a web browser.

A website might be created by anyone for any number of reasons. Most often the case is to present information to the outside world about any matter. A website may give access to the entire world or access may be contained within a certain network or a pre-selected group of users.

A website is commonly accessed through its unique URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), which is usually a web domain. (E.g. example.com) However, it is possible to access a website through an IP or even a hostname.

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How can I download an entire website?

How can I download all pages from a website? Any platform is fine.
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How to download a complete website from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?

I want to get all the files for a given website at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Reasons might include: The original author did not archived his own website and it is now offline, I want to make a public cache from it. I am the original…
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How to forbid keyboard shortcut stealing by websites in Firefox

Many websites, especially everything involving rich text editing (this site is guilty as well), steal keyboard shortcuts normally used to control Firefox and make them do something else instead. It is totally infuriating when I press something like…
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How do I diagnose not being able to reach a specific website as an end user?

If I can generally reach web pages on the Internet but can't reach a specific one, how do I troubleshoot what the cause is as an end user? This question was a Super User Question of the Week. Read the blog entry for more details or contribute to…
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How can I get a virus by just visiting a website?

Possible Duplicate: Can a computer be infected by malware through web browser? It is common knowledge that you can get a virus just by visiting a website. But how is this possible? Do these viruses attack Windows, Mac and Linux users, or are…
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How much information can websites get about your browser/PC?

I am trying to determine if the information shown on www.whatsmyip.org is the absolute maximum amount of information that a webserver can obtain from a web visitor. Are there other sites that will be able to get more information from the user…
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How does a website remember not to store cookies?

A popup on a website showed up, and asked me if I allowed the website to store preferences in cookies. By accident, I said "no". Refreshing/restarting does not bring the popup back. Is there a default way to get these kind of popups back, without…
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Can a website in itself be dangerous?

I do understand that there is a risk of phishing, and that it downloads files that may cause harm when opened. But is there any risk of something bad happening when I simply open a website? In that case, what can happen?
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Wget returning error: "Unable to establish SSL connection."

When I try to run Wget with the following options: E:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>wget -p --html-extension --convert-links --no-check-certificate https://minecraft.net/en-us/ SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc syswgetrc = E:\Program…
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How to enter login information for a website from the linux command line

My internet connection is provided by the university. It is protected to a username/password combination. This means when I start up my computer, I have to start a web browser and open an arbitrary website. I am then redirected to a page, which…
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Free Mac OS X application for downloading an entire website

Is there any free application for downloading an entire site installable on Mac OS X 10.6?
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Should I run my small website in port 80, 8080, or 81?

I am running a small website using nginx. Since there's (probably) not going to be a lot of traffic in my server's lifespan and to avoid random DoS attacks, I am considering setting the web server to listen on an alternate port instead of port…
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What is a web site doing while displaying "Checking if the site connection is secure"?

Some web pages display something similar to this when opened, with a message like "Checking if the site connection is secure": The process usually takes some non-trivial time, sometimes it wants me to click a Verify button, but usually it is just…
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Website error: "Walmart can’t use this browser"

When trying to open https://www.walmart.com/, both Firefox (v. 68.0.1 in Windows 10, v. 17763.652) and Windows Edge (Microsoft Edge 44.17763.1.0) display the message "Walmart can’t use this browser", with suggestions to try Firefox, Chrome, etc. All…
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Rip a website via HTTP to download images, HTML and CSS

I need to rip a site via HTTP. I need to download the images, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as well as organizing it in a file system. Does anyone know how to do this?
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