[MacPerl] Re: link checker

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

>I saw your posting re MacPerl and I and perhaps others are confused.
>
>Just what does a link checker do?
>
>1. Check to see if the link address is still valid.

Definitely.

>2. Check the contents of HTML documents for lint-like errors.

WOuldn't hurt; why use two programs when one will do.

>3. Search for link addresses in documents.

Kinda follows from #1, doesn't it?


Largely I mean something that walks the site tree finding all HREFs and
determining that they actually point to something that exists.  No need to
check off site, but I want to be sure all my internal references, absolute
and relative, work and won't give one of those "Cannot open" errors when
somebody clicks it.

Better? :-)

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