I have a wacz file that in addition to the many internal links, has external links as well that are in the original source. Is there any way to not allow clicking on an external link to function?
No, there’s not a way to do that generally. Do you mean links that are in the wacz but you want them to not be accessible, or links that were not crawled? The latter is something that has come up every once in a while, but poses a number of UX challenges, including:
- Links are not just regular links, but could be images, other interactive elements that link to other pages. It could be dynamic function that actually does the loading.
- If a link is made to be non-clickable, users might think an archive is broken, eg. it looks like a link but can’t be clicked (and we’d get bug reports about that!)
My website has many internal links of course, but also links to external sites. I get the message Archived Page Not Found
Sorry, this page was not found in this archive:
`https://www.hartfordhistotrynet.com’
Go Back to the previous page.
Load the live page in a new tab (or download the file, if this URL points to a file).
This is fine, but I don’t want them to be able to load the live page.