• Link checker recommendation?

    From Stan Brown@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 22 12:16:19 2021
    Good day! I recently ran a full link check on my site, for the first
    time in years, and I'm amazed at the amount of link rot. I've been
    spending the last week cleaning that up.

    But the tool I'm using, Xenu's Link Checker, is probably not the best
    choice. Although it found a lot of real issues, it also turned up a
    bunch of false positives. For instance, it reports quite a few 12157
    errors, which I believe means it can't do SSL2. (The latest version
    is 2010.) It also gets a bunch of plain timeouts on pages I can open
    just fine in my browser. Can someone recommend a better (and
    hopefully free) alternative?

    I'm running Windows 7. I'd like to be able to link-check a server-
    side or local copy of my site, for instance https://BrownMath.com/ or file:///D:/Brownmath/index.htm . I'd also like the option to consider
    a redirect as an error or not an error, as I choose.

    Thanks for your suggestions!

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Stan Brown on Mon Nov 22 23:56:32 2021
    Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
    Good day! I recently ran a full link check on my site, for the first
    time in years, and I'm amazed at the amount of link rot. I've been
    spending the last week cleaning that up.

    It's hard to keep up too! I also use it to check my bookmarks.html! :(


    But the tool I'm using, Xenu's Link Checker, is probably not the best
    choice. Although it found a lot of real issues, it also turned up a
    bunch of false positives. For instance, it reports quite a few 12157
    errors, which I believe means it can't do SSL2. (The latest version
    is 2010.) It also gets a bunch of plain timeouts on pages I can open
    just fine in my browser. Can someone recommend a better (and
    hopefully free) alternative?

    I'm running Windows 7. I'd like to be able to link-check a server-
    side or local copy of my site, for instance https://BrownMath.com/ or file:///D:/Brownmath/index.htm . I'd also like the option to consider
    a redirect as an error or not an error, as I choose.

    Same here. However, the developer stopped updating it. Last year or so,
    I asked him if there were any more updates coming, but he said no. :( I
    hope there are free alternatives like it.
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