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| DLC : Dead Link Check |
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| | 1999 | December | 07 | Release of v0.4.0 (see the changes file) |
| | 1999 | October | 16 | Release of v0.3.2 |
| | 1999 | October | 04 | Release of v0.3.1 |
| | 1999 | July | 21 | Release of v0.3 |
| | 1999 | May | 11 | Release of v0.2.1 |
| | 1999 | May | 10 | Release of v0.2 |
| | 1999 | April | 16 | Release of v0.1.2 |
| | 1999 | April | 15 | Release of v0.1.1 |
| | 1999 | April | 12 | Release of v0.1 |
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| About |
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| What is it ? |
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| DLC is a simple HTTP link checker written in Perl (released under the GPL). It can generate an HTML output for easy checking of the results, and can process a link cache file to hasten multiple requests (links life is time stamp enforced). |
| Dead Link Check is initially created as an extension to Public Bookmark Generator, but can be used by itself as is. |
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| How it works ? |
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| Run the script by providing it a link file or list of HTTPs addresses on the command line, and it will do (or not if the information in the cache file is present and still time valid) a network request and tell you informations on the actual existence of those links in an easy to read result (may be in HTML if option set). |
| When running the script the help option gives a small description of the script options and default values. |
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| Requirements |
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| DLC uses Perl 5 and libwww-perl (a CPAN archive : ftp://www.perl.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/).
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| Future evolutions ? |
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| Extending possible HTTP requests |
| Extend the script to check links in parallel |
| Add a side script to extract all links from a point in a server directory (using exclusion rules) to create an url file |
| Add a "recurse" option to check links inside links (inside links ...) |
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| New releases ? |
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| New releases of DLC are announced on Freshmeat and LinuxApps |
| To be the first to know about new releases, you may want to join the announce mailing list. |
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| How to help ? |
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| Download |
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| Latest version of DLC : dlc-0.4.0.tar.gz (40396 bytes) |
| DLC requires libwww-perl (a CPAN archive : ftp://www.perl.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/). |
| You may download previous versions of DLC from the project filelist. |
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| Documentation |
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| Basic installation and information documentations are provided in the distribution archive. |
| You may obtain manual information using man or perldoc. |
| You may also want to consult the online manual version for deadlinkcheck. |
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| Projects |
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| More information regarding the DLC project may be found on the project web page. |
| You may want to check another project called "Public BookMark" Generator; a simple script to publish one's bookmark by extracting specific data from a netscape user bookmark file. |
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| Author |
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| My name is Martial MICHEL, I am working on a PhD in computer science which major field is parallel computing. My passions involve drawing, coding and Japanese animation. If you desire to check my personal web page, please go to http://www.loria.fr/~michel/, and if you would like to contact me, please send an e-mail to martial@users.sourceforge.net. |
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| SourceForge |
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 | I wish here to express my thanks to the sourceforge.net team and sponsors for the fantastic job they did providing Open Source coders such tools. |
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| Awards |
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 | Well it seems that DLC won an award (I discovered the fact by pure luck, actually looking for references to PBM on the web). |
 | LinuxBerg gave us 4 out of 5 |
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| If you have seen awards given to DLC, please e-mail me at martial@users.sourceforge.net |