It seems this is possible server-side, just checking for the headers, without the need to download the whole page. You'd make an Ajax call to a script on your server with the URL, and it would return true/ false.
See an example(PHP) here: http://www.webmasterworld.com/php/3187554.htm On Jan 29, 2:10 pm, James Westgate <james.westg...@crainiate.net> wrote: > You could select all anchor tags, then use the Ajax functions to see > if you get a successfull response. You may be able to run this in the > background as Ajax is asynchonous, so the links would highlight as > each page is called. Not sure if you can stop the request once you get > a 200 status, so that you dont have to downlaod the whole page, but > worth looking into. > > On Jan 29, 2:36 pm, T <a_j...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > On Jan 28, 10:27 pm, Ricardo Tomasi <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Possible it is, but it's a very very heavy burden on the user, > > > completely inneficient and unreliable. You'd have to load the URL in > > > an iframe and wait for the 'onload' call, if it's not called after a > > > certain time you consider the link dead (but it may just be slow at > > > the time). No event is fired for an error or loading not complete. > > > > Why would you want to have broken links in your page anyway? > > > > On Jan 28, 7:33 pm, T <a_j...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to jquery and javascript in general, so this may not be > > > > possible: > > > > > I want to colorize broken links: that is, colorize anchor elements > > > > containing hrefs that don't resolve (either missing remote file or > > > > missing anchor in remote file). > > > > > Is that possible? > > > > thanks, > > > > --Tim- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > hi, Well, it's not that I want broken links. I run a document > > production system that sometimes can produce broken links. What I was > > thinking of was using jquery on my build reports page so writers could > > easily see their broken links. This would be for development only > > (build reports). Maybe it's a bad idea--I get what you're saying about > > the load. I thought a call to the href might return 404 or some > > 'failed' signal. > > > I think you're saying I'm thinking the wrong way about how to address > > the problem of broken links. > > thanks, > > --Tim- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -
