/Tools/webchecker/README

 1Webchecker
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 3
 4This is a simple web tree checker, useful to find bad links in a web
 5tree.  It currently checks links pointing within the same subweb for
 6validity.  The main program is "webchecker.py".  See its doc string
 7(or invoke it with the option "-?") for more defails.
 8
 9History:
10
11- Jan 1997.  First release.  The module robotparser.py was written by
12Skip Montanaro; the rest is original work by Guido van Rossum.
13
14- May 1999.  Sam Bayer contributed a new version, wcnew.py, which
15supports checking internal links (#spam fragments in URLs) and some
16other options.
17
18- Nov 1999.  Sam Bayer contributed patches to reintegrate wcnew.py
19into webchecker.py, and corresponding mods to wcgui.py and
20websucker.py.
21
22- Mar 2004.  Chris Herborth contributed a patch to let webchecker.py
23handle XHTML's 'id' attribute.