[TYPO3] Problem with Static HTML( with HTTrack)

[Michael Nardell]

Greetings :: I am having one of those problems that is conceptually 
simple, but hard to solve. And it really is not a problem with Typo3, 
but rather the way I am using HTTrack to produce statatic HTML of the 
site. Oh yea, and am using realURL to make attractive, readable urls for 
output.

Ok here is the problem: There are certain external URLs I link to that 
are accessed from many pages in my cms. Since the urls of these external 
pages will be changing as the project moves from development to testing 
to production I have set up pages in the cms of type External URL. And 
then make a local link to these External URLs. So for instance if I have 
a page called press-release.html that has a link to 
http://www.legacy.com/form.asp I implement use an External URL page as a 
  proxy:[brackets indicate inside typo3 cms]

[press_release.html --> external_url_proxy.html 
]-->http://www.legacy.com/form.asp

Ok, this all works well in Typo3... However most of my links break when 
I then go ahead and use HTTrack to extract static html from the cms 
site. Using the example above, press_release.html tries to find 
external_url_proxy.html. Which does not get created.. The weird thing is 
that some of the external URLs I link to using this scheme seem to work. 
The HTTrack will actaully resolve the indirection and there will be no 
reference to the proxy page in the link tag in press_release.html.

I have tried to solve this riddle... trying to figure out what it is 
about the pages that work and I just have not managed to resolve things. 
Any help would be greaty appreciated.

Mike