symbian-qemu-0.9.1-12/python-win32-2.6.1/Tools/webchecker/README.txt
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Webchecker
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This is a simple web tree checker, useful to find bad links in a web
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tree.  It currently checks links pointing within the same subweb for
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validity.  The main program is "webchecker.py".  See its doc string
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(or invoke it with the option "-?") for more defails.
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History:
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- Jan 1997.  First release.  The module robotparser.py was written by
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Skip Montanaro; the rest is original work by Guido van Rossum.
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- May 1999.  Sam Bayer contributed a new version, wcnew.py, which
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supports checking internal links (#spam fragments in URLs) and some
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other options.
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- Nov 1999.  Sam Bayer contributed patches to reintegrate wcnew.py
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into webchecker.py, and corresponding mods to wcgui.py and
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websucker.py.
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- Mar 2004.  Chris Herborth contributed a patch to let webchecker.py
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handle XHTML's 'id' attribute.