Downloading the page for offline analysis with HTTrack

As stated on HTTrack's official website (http://www.httrack.com):

"It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer."

We will be using HTTrack in this recipe to download the whole content of an application's site.

Getting ready

HTTrack is not installed by default in Kali Linux, so we will need to install it, as shown:

apt-get update
apt-get install httrack

How to do it...

  1. Our first step will be to create a directory to store the downloaded site and then enter it:
    mkdir bodgeit_httrack
    cd bodgeit_httrack
    
  2. The simplest way to use HTTrack is by adding the ...

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