After getting a page, a little window called filtercowpad pops up. Whee. You can just press the little x on the right-top corner or ignore the popup at all. We don't need it yet. Just take a look on the list.

Every link you're interested is in? - I suppose so, let's go on. In the world of HTML pages (that's what your browser gets) there are two ways of linking files - absolute or relative. In general, the files are linked relative. If you would press start download yet, none of the relative links would be found - there is no information about the server they are placed on for the relative link. That's why there is the base textbox under the url textbox. It's empty now, but if you press the strange looking button on the left to it ( ), the base of the url is generated into that textbox:

Base Textbox

This base will be added in front of every link on the list. This occur internally (you can't see it) after pressing start download. That's it. Now you can press start download and you will get all linked files. If the list contains only absolute links, you don't have to add this base naturally. Just leave it blank then.

If you're tricky you can even add your own base, maybe there is a secondary server/dir the files are linked to. Just measure it out.

All downloaded files will be placed in a subfolder called 'tmp' in the webcow folder. This is by default. You can select any directory by yourself using the savedir button.

On the next page, I'll write about the thing we skipped first: the filtercowpad. As you can imagine now, you would download files you're not interested in. You can filter them out by hand by selecting the entry in the list and pressing delete, but this is maybe very very annoying on long lists. For this there is the filtercowpad with its filters.

Next page: Filtercowpad and Filter