A lot of people are accustomed to relying on their Internet connection for a wide range of action, varying between entertainment, work or study. However, those who need to work in an offline environment can also browse through complex webpages assuming they have previously downloaded them to their PC using a dedicated application, such as Portable WinHTTrack Website Copier.
Since it is the portable edition of WinHTTrack Website Copier, the app does not create any registry entries and can be run without issues from a USB device.
The application comes with a commandline version and a GUI one, so that tech-savvy users who are more interested in speed rather than in looks can choose the former, while typical users will appreciate the latter version due to its intuitive graphical interface.
The main function of the software solution is to allow users to quickly and effortlessly download an entire webpage that can later be explored offline. Nonetheless, it also supports other features, including testing the links in a certain page or download all sites in separate pages, along with resuming the download process.
Once the target webpage has been selected and processed, one can easily build all its directories recursively, as well as explore HTML, images and other types of files that were integrated within the original site.
The main advantage of Portable WinHTTrack Website Copier is that even novices can explore the downloaded website using the browser they are most familiarized with. Since the initial link structure is preserved, one can open any downloaded page, then navigate to other linked pages as if the site were online.
Additionally, the application is highly customizable as users can rely on wildcards to include or exclude URLs and links from the website they are about to download. They can also specify if they want to also grab images, videos or archive files.
All in all, Portable WinHTTrack Website Copier can be of great use too all those who want to be able to explore certain websites even if their computer is not connected to the Internet.

What's New in This Release:
· New: support for IDNA / RFC 3492 (punycode) handling
· New: openssl is no longer dynamically probed at stratup, but dynamically linked
· Fixed: random closing of files/sockets, leading to "zip_zipWriteInFileInZip_failed" assertion, "bogus state" messages, or random garbage in downloaded files
· Fixed: libssl.dylib is now in the search list for libssl on OSX
· Fixed: bogus charset because the meta http-equiv tag is placed too far in the html page
· Fixed: incorrect machinedir structure build on Windows
· Fixed: do not force a file to have an extension unless it has a known type (such as html), or a possibly known type (if delayed checks are disabled)
· Fixed: HTML 5 addition regarding "poster" attribute for the "video" tag
· Fixed: memory leaks in proxytrack.c
· Fixed: correctly set the Z flag in hts-cache/new.txt file
· Fixed: parallel patch, typo regarding ICONV_LIBS
· Fixed: memory leak in hashtable, that may lead to excessive memory consumption
· Fixed: on Windows, fixed possible DLL lo...