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What's New
Chaotic Software
Email: support@chaoticsoftware.com
Web: www.chaoticsoftware.com
Web Devil 5.3.1:
- Fixed problems when using name filters where it would allow too many or too few URLs.
- Fixed problems with URLs containing anchors being downloaded multiple times.
Web Devil 5.3:
- Fixed problems with users getting erroneous not connected results.
- Fixed problems when using name and size filters.
- Added support for some types of style sheets.
Web Devil 5.2:
- Added HTML viewer window to view downloaded HTML files.
- Separated out Carbon version to avoid problems on some systems.
Web Devil 5.1:
- Carbonized to run natively on Mac OS X. A single application runs on both classic Mac OS and Mac OS X.
- Changed user interface to better accommodate Aqua.
- Auto-scroll URL list when already scrolled to the bottom.
Web Devil 5.0:
- Added support for creating and opening documents containing all the download settings.
- Added display of URL download list so you can see what files were downloaded.
- Fixed problem where uniquely renamed files did not have the correct type/creator set.
- Fixed problems with downloading sites with the Build Folder Hierarchy option off.
Web Devil 4.9.5:
- Added support for BASE URL's when downloading for offline browsing.
- Fixed problems with mail links when downloading for offline browsing.
- Added support for relinking URL's that refer to items in the same hierarchy.
- Fixed problems with URL escape characters being removed when entered in the window.
- Fixed problems with the URL name filter not filtering some files.
Web Devil 4.9.4:
- Added support for EMBED tags for images.
Web Devil 4.9.3:
- Fixed problem with the Limit to Same Directory option not working in some cases.
Web Devil 4.9.2:
- A fully-functional 15-day trial version is now available to all users.
- Added support for downloading image map links and other HTML AREA tags.
- Improved handling of URLs when the actual file name on the server has encoded characters in it.
Web Devil 4.9.1:
- Fixed problems with proxies when using special port numbers and with server redirection.
- Fixed problems when running on older System Software (e.g. Mac OS 8.0).
Web Devil 4.9:
- Greatly improved URL relinking for offline browsing.
- Added support for CGI queries.
- Added support for long (> 256 character) URLs found on downloaded pages.
- Improved support for proxies and firewalls.
- Added accept field to outgoing header to fix problems some servers not sending web pages.
- Fixed problems with downloading URLs with reserved characters in them (e.g. ~).
- Fixed problem where an extra zero byte was appended to downloaded files.
- Fixed problems with the download folder not being correct in some cases.
Web Devil 4.8.1:
- Added support for remembering window positions and sizes.
- Set the initial URL to the first bookmark, if present.
- Removed some unnecessary URL decoding.
Web Devil 4.8:
- Greatly improved performance when using the Skip Duplicate Files option.
- Added support for URL’s containing explicit port numbers (e.g. www.xyz.com:123/index.html).
Web Devil 4.7:
- Added support for downloading JavaScript.
- Added support for user-entered URL's with spaces in them.
- Fixed problems with images being downloaded when the Get Images preference was off.
Web Devil 4.6.1:
- Fixed problems scanning for links with web pages containing unbalanced quotes.
Web Devil 4.6:
- Added support for some types of proxies.
- Added batch URL downloader from a text file listing of URL's.
- Improved ability to extract URL's and e-mail addresses from many huge files with limited memory.
Web Devil 4.5.2:
- Fixed problems with HTML parsing when improperly quoted strings were encountered.
Web Devil 4.5.1:
- Added support for multiple, comma-delimited name filters to make them more useful.
- Added Manipulator droplets to package to help organize stuff you download.
Web Devil 4.5:
- Added host name generation in HTTP header for virtual multihoming servers and fix lots of unreachable sites.
- Added download filter for names (contains, begins/ends with, etc...).
- Added download filter for sizes (greater/less than, is exactly, etc...).
- Added support for re-linking downloaded pages for offline browsing (may not work on some sites).
Web Devil 4.0:
- Added e-mail address extractor (drag files or folder into window).
- Added URL extractor (drag files or folder into window).
- Completely rewrote HTML parser to make it much faster and more accurate:
- Links not surrounded by quotes are now recognized.
- Link scanning is now almost instantaneous.
- Links with weird characters, linefeeds, tabs, etc. are now recognized.
- Added import of bookmarks from links HTML files.
- Added export of bookmarks as a normal HTML file (ready to view in browser).
Web Devil 3.6:
- Added support for customizing the user agent string.
- Several minor bug fixes and improvements.
Web Devil 3.5:
- Added bookmark management system to keep track of URL's, names, and passwords.
- Added a per-window download prefs dialog so each window can have unique settings.
- Changed the interface around to better comply with the Appearance Manager.
- Fixed a bug when parsing links starting with a slash (/).
- Fixed a bug that prevented it from working with MacTCP.
- Lots of other minor bug fixes and improvements.
Web Devil 3.1.3:
- Fixed a bug that prevented pasting in a URL.
Web Devil 3.1.2:
- Fixed problems which results in corrupt downloads.
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements.
Web Devil 3.1.1:
- This version never really existed, but because of the way Stuffit Expander renames duplicates, it appeared as though it did.
Web Devil 3.1:
- Fixed numerous bugs to greatly increase stability.
- Fixed problems with URL's containing "./" and "../".
- Improved server redirection handling.
- Major increases in speed when downloading larger files.
- Made link extraction more reliable.
- Added support for downloading BASE links.
- Added support for downloading EMBED SRC links.
- Added support for encoded URL's.
- Minor cosmetic changes (additions for the Appearance Manager, etc...).
- Added command-key for bringing up the Preferences dialog.
- Fixed white background problem when in 16 & 24-bit color.
Web Devil 3.0:
- Added support for the downloading pages with frames.
- Added option to only download files from the server that are newer.
- Added option to only get files from the same directory or below.
- Made the link searching more robust.
- Moved many options into the preferences dialog so they are persistant.
- Made the skip duplicates option much more efficient.
- Added support for retrieving HTTP-EQUIV links (eg. forwarding pages).
- Improved memory usage when downloading large files.
- Window title now changes to the URL being downloaded.
- Added preference for setting the download folder.
- Added preference for setting the file mappings.
- Put back the Launch Internet Config button in the preferences dialog.
Web Devil 2.0:
- Added the ability to do completely recursive downloads (ie. it will follow links).
- Added support for logging actions to a file.
- Added recursive download depth limiting to limit how far it recurses.
- Added the option to only download files from the same server as the starting web page.
- Added a recently downloaded web pages popup menu for quick access to the last few pages you've downloaded.
- Added an option to create the full web page folder hierarchy to more accurately reflect the web page.
- Added an option to store a complete URL to the downloaded file inside the file's Finder comment field.
- Added an option to skip files that already exist in the same location in the destination folder.
- Now allows the timeout to be set by the user instead of being forced to 3 minutes.
- Now creates a Web Devil Downloads folder into which it places all downloaded files.
- Removed the warning on launch if Internet Config couldn't be found.
Web Devil 1.0.1:
- Fixed a bug that made using it with MacTCP difficult (to say the least).
Web Devil 1.0:
- First public release.