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diff --git a/htdocs/docs/checklink.html b/htdocs/docs/checklink.html index 8f2b695..08d264f 100755 --- a/htdocs/docs/checklink.html +++ b/htdocs/docs/checklink.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: checklink.html,v 1.4 2002-10-27 08:26:40 ville Exp $" ---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-10-27 08:26:40 $" +<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: checklink.html,v 1.5 2002-11-19 21:43:31 ville Exp $" +--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-11-19 21:43:31 $" --><!--#set var="title" value="W3C Link Checker documentation" --><!--#set var="relroot" value="../" --><!--#include virtual="../header.html" --> @@ -58,67 +58,13 @@ </p> <p> - There is a command-line version and a CGI version. They both - support HTTP basic authentication. This is achieved in the CGI version + There is a command line version and a CGI version. They both + support <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt">HTTP basic + authentication</a>. This is achieved in the CGI version by passing through the authorization information from the user browser to the site tested. </p> - <p> - The current version has proven to be stable. It could however be - improved: - </p> - - <ul id="todo"> - <li> - Currently, the URIs are extracted from a defined set of - elements and attributes, whereas the right thing to do would be to - parse the DTD and get the list of elements and attributes to extract - from from the DTD. - </li> - <li> - The program doesn't follow the - <a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/">Robot Exclusion Standard</a>. - </li> - <li> - HTTPS could be supported without much code change. - </li> - <li> - It would be cool to show the source where the error is like the - HTML validator does instead of just giving the line. - </li> - <li> - The link checker should do a GET request when the server replies - 501 to a HEAD request. - </li> - <li> - A <code>Referer</code> header should be sent out. - </li> - <li> - Add XML and <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Linking">XLink</a> support. - </li> - <li> - Produce a report in <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a>. - </li> - <li> - Post annotations to the - <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/">Annotea</a>: when - the document was checked, tag links that are broken, etc. - </li> - <li> - Display an error when both the name and id attributes are used and - their values are different. - </li> - <li> - Probably other things that I haven't thought about. - </li> - </ul> - - <p> - If you are interested in making the link checker understand XML, - please <a href="mailto:hugo@w3.org">contact me</a>. - </p> - <h2><a name="online" id="online">Use it online</a></h2> <p> @@ -169,7 +115,7 @@ <p> Calling <code>checklink.pl</code> without any arguments runs the CGI version, and running <code>checklink.pl --help</code> shows how to - use the command-line version. + use the command line version. </p> <p> @@ -181,6 +127,11 @@ <h2><a name="csb" id="csb">Comments, suggestions and bugs</a></h2> <p> + The current version has proven to be stable. It could however be + improved, see the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?product=LinkChecker&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED">list of open enhancement ideas and bugs</a> for details. + </p> + + <p> Please send comments, suggestions and bugs about the link checker to the <a href="mailto:www-validator@w3.org?subject=checklink%3A%20">www-validator mailing list</a> (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">archives</a>), |