I need to find a way to crawl one of our company's web applications and create a static site from it that can be burned to a cd and used by traveling sales people to demo the web site. The back end data store is spread across many, many systems so simply running the site on a VM on the sale person's laptop won't work. And they won't have access to the internet while at some clients (no internet, cell phone....primitive, I know).
Does anyone have any good recommendations for crawlers that can handle things like link cleanup, flash, a little ajax, css, etc? I know odds are slim, but I figured I'd throw the question out here before I jump into writing my own tool.
wget or curl can both recursively follow links and mirror an entire site, so that might be a good bet. You won't be able to use truly interactive parts of the site, like search engines, or anything that modifies the data, thoguh.
Is it possible at all to create dummy backend services that can run from the sales folks' laptops, that the app can interface with?