[Gnumed-devel] Re: link checking (was: conversion factors from US traditional to SI units)

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > >http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol292/issue1/images/data/112/DC6/JAMA_auinst_si.dtl
> >the source (as in provider) is likely rather stable, not so
> >the URL - for which we should employ a staleness checker
> >regularly ...
> 
> Looking into this a bit I found 2 listings and among these I wondered if 
> either
> 
> Checkbot (can be cronned)
> http://degraaff.org/checkbot/
> 
> or LinkChecker (runs on Python)
> http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/
Heard good things about the latter.

> One limitations might be if they can only check HTML 
> whereas the wiki generates HTML dynamically (unless the apps can read 
> the raw wiki files and detect within them the items that are 
> formatted like URLs).
The checker can just connect to the Wiki like any other user
and thus be presented HTML.

> http://www.opensourcetesting.org/link_checkers.php
> 
> http://www.patrice.ch/en/computer/web/articles/2001/jul_28

Anyone has any experience here ?

Karsten
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