Infodrom Oldenburg

— Infodrom Linx —

Link checker	16.12.2000
Infodrom Linx is a small search engine based on the content provided by Joey which results in mostly Linux- and Free-Software-oriented links. Nevertheless, it is used more widely these days. Currently links are never tested. This is bad since some urls may move or even expire. Thus they should be tested. As first try they could simply be fetched with wget/perl-LWP. As second try one could think about fetching the entire file and comparing it with an already stored version (or better HEAD it and check its modification time). It could be important to find out if the file was changed recently.

Link checker

16.12.2000

Infodrom Linx is a small search engine based on the content provided by Joey which results in mostly Linux- and Free-Software-oriented links. Nevertheless, it is used more widely these days.

Currently links are never tested. This is bad since some urls may move or even expire. Thus they should be tested. As first try they could simply be fetched with wget/perl-LWP. As second try one could think about fetching the entire file and comparing it with an already stored version (or better HEAD it and check its modification time). It could be important to find out if the file was changed recently.