URL checking tools

[vinod]

Dear colleagues,

Last week we had a discussion on tools which could extract links from
Webpages.

Does anyone know of any tool[that is free or cheap] that could retrieve
original URLs from 'masked'/'covered'/ 'redirected' URLs.

I had tried the web search engine provided by atomz http://www.atomz.com ,
by changing the options, but does not seem to work with 'covered' URLs of
the form http://www.domainname.com/link.php?id=123  ,
http://www.domainname.com/link.cfm?id=123  etc

I would be happy to summarise the replies for the list.

Thanks in advance

Vinod Scaria
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