Re: Clean out those dead links

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> On 6/9/2012 5:11 PM, wrp wrote:
>
>>
>> So, if you have an Ada page, why don't you spend a few minutes to
>> clean it up?
>>
>
> Agree. But it does really take more than few minutes.
>
> When I cleaned the links on my Ada links page:
>
> http://12000.org/my_notes/ada/original_web_page.htm
>
> I record the time that the link was check to be valid,
> and if the link is broken, search the net for where the
> link gone (this takes time) so that to update it, and there
> is no alternative link to be found, then remove it.
>
> I remember it took me few long hrs to do the whole page.

webcheck can help here (http://www.stephe-leake.org/ada/webcheck.html).
It scans a web site, checking the validity of each link, and outputs a
list of the broken ones.

That automates the first step, at least.

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