I havent’ found much details online on how to perform a Moodle course mirror that could be browsed offline using httrack.
This could be useful both for backup purposes, or for distant learners with connectivity issues.
In my case, there’s a login/password dialog that grants access to the moodle platform, which can be processed by httrack by capturing the POST form results using the “catchurl” option.
The strategy I’ve used is to add filters so that everything is excluded and only explicitely mentioned filters are then allowed to be mirrored. This allows to perform the backup connected with a user that may have high privileges, while avoiding to disappear in loops or complex links following for UI rendering variants of Moodle’s interface.
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