I'm a member of a private group, one that costs many thousands of dollars to join. The person that started the group and runs it, I'll call "Bob", isn't very technical at all. He hired someone to create a website for members. Each member has their own username and password. As far as I know, for at least the last few years Microsoft SharePoint Server has been used. I do not know any more specifics about what the website is running on.
"Bob" has always encouraged people to download things from the website here and there since content is always changing and in case anything ever happened to the server. Well, this website has many areas (called "Sites"), thousands of forum/blog type postings, and hundreds or thousands of links, files, and folders scattered all over the place. Yes, I could manually make local folders and download things, but that would be a nightmare and quite difficult.
So, all along over the last year or so, I've thought about just making an "offline" copy and figured I would use WinHTTrack, which I have known about for many years. I went to do it about a week ago, with the intention of backing up the site to a new Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB drive. I think the website is only maybe 100GB. Anyway, I am getting "Access Denied" and "Unauthorized" errors (if I look at the logs), which don't make any sense when I know I am using the correct username and password that I use to login. I am even copying and pasting from my password manager.
Information, Warnings and Errors reported for this mirror:
note: the hts-log.txt file, and hts-cache folder, may contain sensitive information,
such as username/password authentication for websites mirrored in this project
do not share these files/folders if you want these information to remain private
14:16:56 Error: "Unauthorized" (401) at link USERNAME:[email protected]/default.aspx (from primary/primary)
14:16:56 Info: No data seems to have been transfered during this session! : restoring previous one!
Attached you will find an a screen-shot of the error I get via a pop-up window (for WEBSITE.com or WEBSITE.com/default.aspx) as well as screen-shots showing the various tabs of the Preferences.
So, I was wondering if there is a problem in general with using WinHTTrack with SharePoint websites? Does anyone have any experience making offline copies of SharePoint websites? Any suggestions? Other software that someone has used for SharePoint websites?
If I could, I would commemorate it the best way possible: Replacing old machines that are still running Windows XP with something more modern, stable and better.
Noone and nothing should be running Windows XP in 2026.
Google's new hand-wave reCAPTCHA can be bypassed with a stock photo by Ivan Jenic
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Google is testing a new reCAPTCHA method that asks you to wave at your camera to prove you're human. So, besides solving puzzles and reading distorted text, you can now use your computer’s camera to pass the verification test.
When the hand gesture verification is triggered, your browser asks for camera access and prompts you to perform a simple gesture, like a wave or an open palm. Google says it records a short video of the movement and uses AI to extract 21 hand-knuckle coordinates to complete the verification process. The video is then immediately deleted, and Google swears it doesn't keep it.
The process alone can be uncomfortable for people who wouldn’t want their biometric data, which hand scans technically qualify as, recorded. But it gets even more nuanced, as early testers discovered that the new hand-waving reCAPTCHA can be passed with a simple stock image.
A user on X tested the new challenge using a stock image of a hand fed through OBS Virtual Camera, and it passed. I wanted to verify it, so I tried the same thing. It took me a few tries and a few stock images, but in the end, I was also able to pass the test. I simply had to readjust the stock image of a generic person waving inside OBS, and Google’s mechanism registered it as a legitimate hand gesture.
Once again, it didn’t even have to be a video or an AI-generated hand animation. Given the simplicity of the process, the entire action can be automated in minutes. All it takes is a simple Python script to render the new reCAPTCHA method obsolete. And it doesn’t even have to be an AI bot, which is usually used for solving puzzles and other verification methods.
The new reCAPTCHA method is still in its early phase, and Google will, hopefully, update its AI to at least reject still images. However, this incident, combined with users’ initial skepticism about Google’s practices regarding user data, likely won’t make too many people wave at the camera anytime soon.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "to fund healthcare and tuition" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Who do you think you are talking about, some COMMUNIST? We are better than them, doG bless Murica!!!
p.s. I'm from a country where government does exactly that, i.e. not form US.
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JayZJay
Hi, everyone.
I'm a member of a private group, one that costs many thousands of dollars to join. The person that started the group and runs it, I'll call "Bob", isn't very technical at all. He hired someone to create a website for members. Each member has their own username and password. As far as I know, for at least the last few years Microsoft SharePoint Server has been used. I do not know any more specifics about what the website is running on.
"Bob" has always encouraged people to download things from the website here and there since content is always changing and in case anything ever happened to the server. Well, this website has many areas (called "Sites"), thousands of forum/blog type postings, and hundreds or thousands of links, files, and folders scattered all over the place. Yes, I could manually make local folders and download things, but that would be a nightmare and quite difficult.
So, all along over the last year or so, I've thought about just making an "offline" copy and figured I would use WinHTTrack, which I have known about for many years. I went to do it about a week ago, with the intention of backing up the site to a new Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB drive. I think the website is only maybe 100GB. Anyway, I am getting "Access Denied" and "Unauthorized" errors (if I look at the logs), which don't make any sense when I know I am using the correct username and password that I use to login. I am even copying and pasting from my password manager.
Here is the log file generated when telling WinHTTrack to copy http://www.WEBSITE.com :
HTTrack3.46+htsswf+htsjava launched on Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:12:40 at http://USERNAME:PASS...www.WEBSITE.com +*.png +*.gif +*.jpg +*.css +*.js -
ad.doubleclick.net/* -mime:application/foobar
(winhttrack -WC2%Pns2u1%s%uN0%I0p7DaK0c2R3H0%kf2A25000%c1%f#f -F "Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98)" -%F "<!-- Mirrored from %s%s by HTTrack Website
Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2010], %s -->" -%l "en, en, *" http://USERNAME:PASS...www.WEBSITE.com -O1 I:\WEBSITE_BACKUP_FOLDER +*.png +*.gif +*.jpg
+*.css +*.js -ad.doubleclick.net/* -mime:application/foobar )
Information, Warnings and Errors reported for this mirror:
note: the hts-log.txt file, and hts-cache folder, may contain sensitive information,
such as username/password authentication for websites mirrored in this project
do not share these files/folders if you want these information to remain private
14:12:42 Error: "Access denied" (401) at link USERNAME:[email protected]/ (from primary/primary)
14:12:42 Info: No data seems to have been transfered during this session! : restoring previous one!
Here is the log file generated when telling WinHTTrack to copy http://www.WEBSITE.com/default.aspx :
HTTrack3.46+htsswf+htsjava launched on Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:16:53 at http://USERNAME:PASS...om/default.aspx +*.png +*.gif +*.jpg +*.css +*.js
-ad.doubleclick.net/* -mime:application/foobar
(winhttrack -WC2%Pns2u1%s%uN0%I0p7DaK0c2R3H0%kf2A25000%c1%f#f -F "Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98)" -%F "<!-- Mirrored from %s%s by HTTrack Website
Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2010], %s -->" -%l "en, en, *" http://USERNAME:PASS...om/default.aspx -O1 I:\WEBSITE_BACKUP_FOLDER +*.png
+*.gif +*.jpg +*.css +*.js -ad.doubleclick.net/* -mime:application/foobar )
Information, Warnings and Errors reported for this mirror:
note: the hts-log.txt file, and hts-cache folder, may contain sensitive information,
such as username/password authentication for websites mirrored in this project
do not share these files/folders if you want these information to remain private
14:16:56 Error: "Unauthorized" (401) at link USERNAME:[email protected]/default.aspx (from primary/primary)
14:16:56 Info: No data seems to have been transfered during this session! : restoring previous one!
Attached you will find an a screen-shot of the error I get via a pop-up window (for WEBSITE.com or WEBSITE.com/default.aspx) as well as screen-shots showing the various tabs of the Preferences.
So, I was wondering if there is a problem in general with using WinHTTrack with SharePoint websites? Does anyone have any experience making offline copies of SharePoint websites? Any suggestions? Other software that someone has used for SharePoint websites?
Thanks in advance for any feedback and/or help...
-JayZJay
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