On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Geoff Hutchison wrote: re. logging broken links > > I don't really see this as a needed feature to ht://Dig itself since > you can do this as a script running on top of the htdig output using > the -s flag. See > <http://www.htdig.org/files/contrib/scripts/showdead.pl> > <http://www.htdig.org/files/contrib/scripts/report_missing_pages.pl>
I played with this briefly. Htdig listed a broken link (404) on the same server, and a 404 link to another server. It didn't list a 502 (connection refused) or 500 (unknown host). It also doesn't grab any mail information or owner metadata, so you'd either have to have a database of sites/URL fragments against authors, or re-spider the list of referring documents to gather author information, if you wanted to mail authors or sort the broken list by author. My robot produces e.g. http://www.triumf.ca/trsearch/errors2.html (but I'm too lazy to fix my links - [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Andrew Daviel Are you always losing things? - http://huzizit.com _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
