On August 29, 2023 8:10:57 PM EDT, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Short urls are for viewing normal pages. Other actions like edit, along with other entry points like api.php or load.php (static css and js) continue to use long urls. Load.php is critical for site css. If you want to save a site using wget you will have to save the load.php requests too.
Some javascript/css may get loaded dynamically when the user does certain actions in the interface and thus not be caught by wget (however this does not sound like your main issue). Things should degrade gracefully without javascript, but of course the css is important.
-- Brian
Thanks for the fast response - it looks like I will need to do a fair bit of editing of the files downloaded by wget.
Although wget downloaded three "load.php" files, Chrome Developer Tools/Network showed additional load.php calls that appear to be invoked from the output of the two load.php calls in Main_Page. Because these calls were invoked by a script, they were not captured by wget. I will attempt to download them individually and add script calls to the output in Main_Page and the other article pages. I started a thread on converting Mediawiki sites to static HTML and will post my experiences there.