I am designing a test (demo to users) of a web site from my local machine withou

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I am designing a test (demo to users) of a web site from my local machine without Internet access. The site will be hosted locally, but I would also like users to be able to follow links to certain external sites. Are there tools that can make the user think they are browsing a site online when they are actually browsing a local copy of the relevant external pages?

The kind of tool I'm imagining would allow you to specify a proxy in the browser that would intercept certain URLs and hand them to the offline copy of a page. There would also be an easy way to save and manage these offline pages.

The offline access requirement is a developing world thing - smart people don't rely on Internet access in places where there is little by way of infrastructure and they only have one chance to get something right.

Explanation / Answer

Fiddler is exactly what you need here. You can set up "autoresponders" to known external URLs to return local content. With a little more effort you can actually use Fiddler to record a session to a real site and then get it to "Play back" the responses, you do have to be very careful to make all your requests in exactly the same way though.

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