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