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When you enter a web-site URL to stickify, StickyLinks checks to see if a snapshot (currently) up to 25 minutes ago exists or not. If so, it shows you that sticky url, or else it creates a new sticky URL and shows you that one.
No. StickyLinks just downloads the HTML content of the page whose URL is specified, and converts all relative links to absolute ones so that the external images/CSS/javascript is fetched from the original site. What this means is that your page will look broken if any of these above external entities changes. What it also means is that if the developer fixes some bugs in these external dependencies, you'll be able to use the fixed code for free!!
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No, sites that generate the page data dynamically may not work well. Having said this, more often than not, you will see the page correctly since external javascript will be loaded. Also sites that require you to login will not work with StickyLinks since the StickyLinks server will not be able to login on your behalf.
We currently use Mozilla/4.0 as the User-Agent string to make sure that only HTML content is served by the web-site as far as possible. However, most web-sites don't serve content based on the User-Agent. Furthermore, the HTTP Referer tag is set to a value other than the original web-site's URL when external images/CSS/javascript is fetched from the site. A site administrator may block requests that either don't have a Referer set, or have a Referer other than the original site's URL.
Sure. Please drop me an email at dhruvbird at gmail dot com with a subject line StickyLinks: Request Removal, and mention in the email which web-site it is that you want removed. This might take a while, but it will be done. The old links will not go dead, but will point to some reasonable error message, and a link to the original page.