| Webchecker |
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| This is a simple web tree checker, useful to find bad links in a web |
| tree. It currently checks links pointing within the same subweb for |
| validity. The main program is "webchecker.py". See its doc string |
| (or invoke it with the option "-?") for more defails. |
| |
| History: |
| |
| - Jan 1997. First release. The module robotparser.py was written by |
| Skip Montanaro; the rest is original work by Guido van Rossum. |
| |
| - May 1999. Sam Bayer contributed a new version, wcnew.py, which |
| supports checking internal links (#spam fragments in URLs) and some |
| other options. |
| |
| - Nov 1999. Sam Bayer contributed patches to reintegrate wcnew.py |
| into webchecker.py, and corresponding mods to wcgui.py and |
| websucker.py. |
| |
| - Mar 2004. Chris Herborth contributed a patch to let webchecker.py |
| handle XHTML's 'id' attribute. |