Maintenance is so booooooooooring -Reply

[Thomas Dowling]

>
>But don't validators simply tell you whether a not a page
>*exists* at a particular URL? It won't tell you (for
>example) that the page now says "This wonderful
>reference source has moved -- its new location is
>http://some.other.location/".
>

That's too bad.  Since link checkers must minimally do an HTTP HEAD request,
and since the HTTP header includes the size of the file, it would be trivial
for people writing link checkers to let you flag pages that were smaller
than some threshold size.  Most "We have moved" pages are probably less that
1000 bytes, for example.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu