README
1 Webchecker
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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.
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9 History:
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11 - Jan 1997. First release. The module robotparser.py was written by
12 Skip 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
15 supports checking internal links (#spam fragments in URLs) and some
16 other options.
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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.
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22 - Mar 2004. Chris Herborth contributed a patch to let webchecker.py
23 handle XHTML's 'id' attribute.
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