Link Checking

[PetrolTed]

Is there a means of checking that a file on an external website is still there? e.g. could I write something to whizz theough www.OilyPages.com checking for dead links?

[docevi1]

you could but it would depend on what language you were intending to use and the way the page/links are stored...

>> Edited by docevi1 on Saturday 30th August 20:09

[docevi1]

www.developerfusion.com/show/1605/

[Mark.S]

Recent versions of Frontpage have link checking facilities (internal and external).

[PetrolTed]

It's not a design time check I'm after. I need to check live links that are in a database.

[Don]

PetrolTed said:

It's not a design time check I'm after. I need to check live links that are in a database.

Yes. Get out a copy of VB. Load your link string from the database (or parse it out of the page text or whatever) then use the Microsoft Internet Control (MSINET.OCX) to open the page...

strRet = Inet.OpenURL szURL

You can then parse strRet for "404" ...

I think that should do it...

I am currently writing a Performance Testing piece of software that "pretends" to load a page thousands of times..