1 Webchecker

     2 ----------

     3 

     4 This is a simple web tree checker, useful to find bad links in a web

     5 tree.  It currently checks links pointing within the same subweb for

     6 validity.  The main program is "webchecker.py".  See its doc string

     7 (or invoke it with the option "-?") for more defails.

     8 

     9 History:

    10 

    11 - Jan 1997.  First release.  The module robotparser.py was written by

    12 Skip Montanaro; the rest is original work by Guido van Rossum.

    13 

    14 - May 1999.  Sam Bayer contributed a new version, wcnew.py, which

    15 supports checking internal links (#spam fragments in URLs) and some

    16 other options.

    17 

    18 - Nov 1999.  Sam Bayer contributed patches to reintegrate wcnew.py

    19 into webchecker.py, and corresponding mods to wcgui.py and

    20 websucker.py.

    21 

    22 - Mar 2004.  Chris Herborth contributed a patch to let webchecker.py

    23 handle XHTML's 'id' attribute.