Features

• Multiple tasks per project.
• Multithreaded Web spider. User configurable Maximum Connections, Maximum Connections Per Server, Pause Between Connections, Maximum Retries, Timeout.
• Supported protocols: FILE, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP.
• Proxy support: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP via HTTP proxy. No proxy configuration required: by default OC uses Internet Explorer proxy settings.
• Resumes broken downloads for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP-via-HTTP connections.
• Powerful filters. Separate filters for links, images, objects. Advanced pattern matching filters using wildcards * and ?. Boolean expressions (AND, OR, NOT, parentheses to group expressions). File size filters (maximum size, minimum size). Filter debugger. For more information, see How to Use Filters in the Online Help.
• Configurable User Agent. Preconfigured User Agent settings. Default is IE.
• HTTP Referrer support. Configurable starting Referrer.
• Ability to automatically detect availability of Internet connection. For more information, see in the Online Help.
• Projects are stored in a standard Microsoft Access database (with extention .ocp for Offline Commander or .irp for Internet Researcher).
• Ability to export downloaded Web sites to a folder on the disk.
• Ability to search in downloaded files by keywords, phrases, complex boolean expressions, URLs, Web page titles, file size ranges, file types, file modification dates, and download dates.
• Full drag and drop support within the application and between the application and Internet Explorer and Shell.
• Drop Box.
• Direct access to the download queue. Ability to search in the queue and delete queued files.
• Filters and depth may be changed at the time of download.
• Built-in browser. By default browsers open in tabs inside the main window and do not clutter your desktop.
• Ability to enqueue (prefetch) individual links from within the internal browser.
• Pages stored inside the OC project database are safe for browsing.
• OC has now ability to work with read-only project files (e.g. from a CD).
• Password protection to project files added. The commands to set or remove a password on the currently opened project file are available on the Tools menu.
• OC has now the ability to automatically dial up a connection, download tasks, disconnect, and exit. You can also set a limit on the download time. This new functionality is available by running OC with command line parameters. For a list of all parameters and their proper usage run "oc.exe /?". To schedule OC to run at a particular time use Windows scheduler. You can find the Windows scheduler in Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks.
• UNIX style text files are displayed correctly when using the View Source command.

How Offline Commander differs from other offline browsers

• The most distinctive feature of Offline Commander is that it can download and save virtually everything you can view with a standard browser, be it Flash, JavaScript links (no matter how complex the scripts are), content available through web forms, HTTPS websites, or FTP sites. Just as other offline browsers Offline Commander may fail to download some sites or Web pages automaticaly but you can always fix this with a few clicks of the mouse. If Offline Commander failed to download a particluar page, just open the page in the built-in browser and the page will be retrieved with the help of the browser.
• Offline Commander is the only offline browser that provides security against viruses and malicious scripts you can download along with Web pages. When you browse the offline content with the integrated browser you can be sure that you have the same level of security as when you browse the Internet with Internet Explorer. Other offline utilities store downloaded Web sites on your local hard drive as linked files or run a Web server on your PC. When you browse your local hard drive the browser turns off security as it assumes you browse a trusted content. Offline Commander tells the browser that the pages you browse must be treated the same way as pages from the Internet (in a secure manner).
• Offline Commander gives you a true ability to download only the pages you need and nothing else. And you do not have to use filters for this purpose (though the program provides you with very powerful filters). You do not have to set levels and filters for a task. Just open a page in the built-in browser and drag the links you want to retrieve to a special topmost window called Drop Box. The program will download these links in the background. You can also drag Web page text selections to the Drop Box. Every link in the selected text will be downloaded.
• You can browse tasks with the built-in browser while the program downloads them. Retrieved pages will be loaded immediately. If you click on a link that is not yet retrieved, it will be scheduled for immediate download.
• You can search the downloaded Web sites and pages for a particular word, phrase, or any combination of them. The program gives you very powerful search capabilities. Offline Commander works like a search engine but searches only the offline content.
• No matter how, when, and in what order you download Web pages, and regardless of what tasks they belong to, if they link to each other you will be able to click on the link and get to the linked page even if the link was retrieved by another task. This gives you the ability to download different parts of a site by different tasks with different parameters and still have the parts linked to each other as if they were downloaded by a single task; or the ability to have shortcuts in the Tasks List to any page of a Web site.
  See also How Offline Commander Compares to Other Offline Browsers

• Two additional command line parameters let you automate downloading tasks. One parameter tells Internet Researcher to import a list of URLs from a text file at start up. The other parameter sets the destination directory the project should be exported to after the program finishes. For a list of all parameters and their proper usage run "ir.exe /?". To schedule IR to run at a particular time use Windows scheduler. You can find the Windows scheduler in Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks.
  
  
• The new version adds ability to load custom parsers. Custom parsers are plugin modules (DLLs) that control the extraction of links from Web pages. Custom parsers add to IR ability to automatically download ANY Web site even if the site uses JavaScript links.

A project created by Internet Researcher cannot be opened by Offline Commander and vice versa although you can copy data between OC and IR by dragging selected tasks between the application windows.