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  1. Webchecker
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  4. This is a simple web tree checker, useful to find bad links in a web
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  5. tree.  It currently checks links pointing within the same subweb for
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  6. validity.  The main program is "webchecker.py".  See its doc string
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  7. (or invoke it with the option "-?") for more defails.
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  9. History:
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  11. - Jan 1997.  First release.  The module robotparser.py was written by
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  12. Skip Montanaro; the rest is original work by Guido van Rossum.
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  14. - May 1999.  Sam Bayer contributed a new version, wcnew.py, which
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  15. supports checking internal links (#spam fragments in URLs) and some
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  16. other options.
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  18. - Nov 1999.  Sam Bayer contributed patches to reintegrate wcnew.py
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  19. into webchecker.py, and corresponding mods to wcgui.py and
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  20. websucker.py.
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  22. - Mar 2004.  Chris Herborth contributed a patch to let webchecker.py
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  23. handle XHTML's 'id' attribute.
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