Capture and storage of html

[Rob Schieber]

Hello,

Our company needs to capture output presented to the user. Its a web app,
so we are looking into storing html in a datawarehouse. The problem is that
we would lose any css or external references if we ever changed them in
production down the road. Is there a better way to do this? A few other
options I was considering:

1. Taking an image of the data - jpeg, tiff etc...
2. Converting to pdf - size may get unwildy though

Has anybody implemented a solution for this. Is there a best way to capture
output in a way that doesn't take a lot of storage and can give an exact
rendering of how the data was displayed?

Thanks in Advance

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Rob Schieber

[Rad [Visual C# MVP]]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:08:11 -0500, Rob Schieber wrote:

Hello,

Our company needs to capture output presented to the user. Its a web app,
so we are looking into storing html in a datawarehouse. The problem is that
we would lose any css or external references if we ever changed them in
production down the road. Is there a better way to do this? A few other
options I was considering:

1. Taking an image of the data - jpeg, tiff etc...
2. Converting to pdf - size may get unwildy though

Has anybody implemented a solution for this. Is there a best way to capture
output in a way that doesn't take a lot of storage and can give an exact
rendering of how the data was displayed?

Thanks in Advance

Not sure I understand you, but isn't it better to store the *data* the
users have submitted rather than the rendered HTML pages?
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