on 8/1/02 9:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said:

> I am using  LWP::UserAgent and HTML::Parser to monitor a web site for broken
> links. We start with the home page, and walk the links.
> 
> The software works fine with Epicentric server 3.5. But when the site upgraded
> to 4.0, my software parses only the home page, and then indicates it is done.
> 
> The content of the home page from 4.0 contains the following line which might
> be the problem
> 
> META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL= ...

Good guess. The first "home" page is a meta-refresh. You will have to modify
your link checker to follow refresh instructions as well (that's the URL
part of the CONTENT attribute).

> The site is an internal LAN, not visible to the outside world.
> 
> Anyone else using UserAgent with an Epicentric 4 portal?


Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

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