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 9 History: 10 11 - Jan 1997. First release. The module robotparser.py was written by 12 Skip Montanaro; the rest is original work by Guido van Rossum. 13 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. 21 22 - Mar 2004. Chris Herborth contributed a patch to let webchecker.py 23 handle XHTML's 'id' attribute. 24
