Re: [MacPerl] Testing external links

[Enrique Terrazas <terrazas@pangloss.ucsf.EDU>]

on 2/21/2000 9:33 AM, Brian McNett at webmaster@mycoinfo.com wrote:

> Da Boss, that is, my business partner Phil, has asked me to check how
> many of the external links from our site are "bad", that is, return '404
> not found' or some other error page, other than the intended target.
> Sounds simple enough on the face of it.

It's been done.  From the checkbot readme:

Checkbot -- a WWW link verifier

Checkbot is a perl5 script which can verify links within a region of
the World Wide Web. It checks all pages within an identified region,
and all links within that region. After checking all links within the
region, it will also check all links which point outside of the
region, and then stop.

Checkbot regularly writes reports on its findings, including all
servers found in the region, and all links with problems on those
servers.

<http://www.xs4all.nl/~graaff/checkbot/>

I used it on a LinuxPPC machine, and it gave pretty good results.  404, as
well as others errors, were detailed, showing the parent page, and the links
that caused the errors.  It uses command line args, so you will have to
modify it somewhat to use it with MacPerl.

-- 
Enrique Terrazas, MD
<mailto:terrazas@labmed.ucsf.edu>
<http://pangloss.ucsf.edu/~terrazas/>


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