[WEB4LIB] Re: looking for a link checking software

Nick Dobbing ndobbing at uoguelph.ca
Mon Mar 14 18:35:18 EST 2005


Sorry about that, had the wrong link in my clipboard! That should have 
been...

http://www.cyberspyder.com/cslnkts1.html

Nick.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Dobbing" <ndobbing at uoguelph.ca>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 6:29 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: looking for a link checking software


> I've had some success with an inexpensive shareware package called
> CyberSpyder Link Test. I've certainly had no problems checking links on
> dynamic pages. Provided these are available via hyperlink, under normal
> circumstances a link checker shouldn't have a problem.
>
> Cyberspyder runs on Windows, and I've had some stability issues with it on
> Windows XP, but you may have a different experience. It's fast, and 
> produces
> useful HTML reports of broken links. You can run a trial for 60 days to 
> see
> if you like it, and it's much less expensive than Link Checker Pro. Have a
> look:
>
> http://www.scc.losrios.edu/~library/webdirectory/web_subject_guides.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick Dobbing
> University of Guelph
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chen, Shu Sue" <ChenS at scc.losrios.edu>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 6:01 PM
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] looking for a link checking software
>
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I am looking for a link checking software that will check links on
>> dynamically generated pages.  We are working on a web subject directory
>> at
>> http://www.scc.losrios.edu/~library/webdirectory/web_subject_guides.htm.
>> Each link on the page generates a new page with relevant links. (Only
>> Accounting and Business and a couple of others have anything in them
>> right now.)  I need a software to check all the links on the generated
>> page.  So far, I could only find software, such as Link Checker Pro,
>> that checks links on a page including dynamically generated links but
>> couldn't get it check the links on the generatated pages.
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions?  Thanks for your time!  -Sue
>>
>>
>
> 




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