name: Phil Mitchell email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] userid: PHILMI description: link checking script discussed: I mentioned this script on libwww and there seemed to be significant interest in it. Although there are many link check scripts floating around, including one in CPAN/web, they generally conflate spidering and link checking. My script just checks a list of urls provided in a file. This is a more general solution, and lets me concentrate on the _checking_ part. The script was written to check the 10,000-plus urls in the Harvard library catalog, and I have worked pretty hard to weed out all sorts of spurious error reports. EG., Configurable params to specify how many rechecks and how they are spread out in time allow one to control the degree of conservatism in handling servers that are just temporarily unavailable. My script also handles the Solaris quirk which causes LWP (and telnet) to time out on responses from certain web servers despite receiving the response. (A post to libwww about this has drawn considerable interest, as well.) I will admit, my perl is not particularly sophisticated -- but it is clean and it works and is well-documented, and there are way too many people out there writing their own link check scripts! regards, phil
