| Guido van Rossum | df47baf | 1997-01-30 03:24:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Webchecker |
| 2 | ---------- |
| 3 | |
| 4 | This is a simple web tree checker, useful to find bad links in a web |
| 5 | tree. It currently checks links pointing within the same subweb for |
| 6 | validity. The main program is "webchecker.py". See its doc string |
| 7 | (or invoke it with the option "-?") for more defails. |
| 8 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 4755ee5 | 1999-11-17 15:41:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | History: |
| Guido van Rossum | df47baf | 1997-01-30 03:24:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 4755ee5 | 1999-11-17 15:41:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | - Jan 1997. First release. The module robotparser.py was written by |
| 12 | Skip Montanaro; the rest is original work by Guido van Rossum. |
| Guido van Rossum | df47baf | 1997-01-30 03:24:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 4755ee5 | 1999-11-17 15:41:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | - May 1999. Sam Bayer contributed a new version, wcnew.py, which |
| 15 | supports checking internal links (#spam fragments in URLs) and some |
| 16 | other options. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | - Nov 1999. Sam Bayer contributed patches to reintegrate wcnew.py |
| 19 | into webchecker.py, and corresponding mods to wcgui.py and |
| 20 | websucker.py. |
| Andrew M. Kuchling | a982c44 | 2004-03-21 19:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
| 22 | - Mar 2004. Chris Herborth contributed a patch to let webchecker.py |
| 23 | handle XHTML's 'id' attribute. |