2008-10-15 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.80 is released 2008-07-08 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_doc): Tighten up the check for a robots tag so that nofollow text later in the document won't be matched, thus skipping the whole document, bug 2005950. 2007-05-05 Brandon Bell * checkbot: mms scheme can be ignored safely. 2007-04-30 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (printAllServers): Clarify that 'Unique links' actually is 'Documents scanned'. 2007-02-26 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_doc): Handle the case where decoded_content is not available as per bug 1665075. 2007-02-26 Gerald Preifer * checkbot (check_point): Simplify and add a comment. 2007-02-26 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL: Require LWP 5.803 or better. decoded_content got added in 5.802 and 5.803 added some important bugfixes. 2007-02-03 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.79 is released * RELEASE-PROCESS: Add the release process documentation. 2007-01-27 Gerald Pfeifer * checkbot (init_suppression): Check and provide error if suppression file is in fact a directory. 2006-12-28 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Add summary to tables to make files XHTML 1.1 compliant. 2006-11-16 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_doc): Parse the decoded content so that all character set issues are dealt with before parsing. This solves bug 1264729. 2006-11-14 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (performRequest): Simplify the code dealing with problems of HEAD requests by retrying all 500 reponses instead of special-cases particular failures that we happen to know about. This type of problem is all to common, and if there really is a problem GET will find it anyway. (add_error): Allow regular expressions in the suppression file. Based on patch from Eric Noack 2006-11-14 Eric Noack * checkbot (send_mail): Indicate how many errors are detected in the notification email's subject. (handle_doc): Use the URL with which the document was received for the problem reports and internal accounting, but keep on using the proper base URL as defined by the reponse object when retrieving links from the document. This fixes the case where a weird BASE URL in a document could make it unclear where the actual problem was. 2006-10-28 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (performRequest): Handle case where an FTP server may not be able to handle a HEAD request. This may cause a lot of data to be transferred in those cases. 2006-05-03 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.78 is released 2005-12-18 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (printServerProblems): Make pages XHTML compliant again. 2005-12-18 Jens Schweikhardt * checkbot: Add classes and ids so that more styling options for CSS are available. * checkbot2.css: Example CSS file using the new classes and ids. 2005-11-11 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: React in a more subtle way if the Time::Duration module is not found. 2005-09-22 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL: Check for presence of Net::SSL and explain the effects if this it not present. 2005-08-20 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_doc): Ignore some 'links' found by LinkExtor which do not need to link to live links. Fixed bugs #1264447 and #1107832. * test.html: Add test cases for it. 2005-08-06 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (performRequest): Switch from HEAD to GET on a 400 error, as the most likely cause is that the server has trouble with HEAD requests. 2005-08-05 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_doc): Also show how many new links are found on a page, not just the total number of links. (performRequest): Don't retry GET method on a 403 error. (handle_doc): Properly handle newlines in the matches for title and robots meta tag. 2005-07-28 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.77 is released. * checkbot: Fix use of $VERSION so that it compiles and can be used by MakeMaker at the same time. (handle_doc): Check for presence of robots meta tag and act on it. Based on a patch by Donald Willingham. 2005-07-25 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.76 is released. 2005-06-07 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (printServerProblems): Include title of page. (handle_doc): Extract title for later printing. Add new hash url_title to store page titles. Based on a patch from John Bintz. 2005-04-23 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Add documentation on use of file:/// URLs. 2005-01-23 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Only send mail when Checkbot has detected any problems, based on suggestion from Thomas Kuerten. Print duration of run on final report, and refactor use of start time variable to facilitate this. Feature depends on availability of Time::Duration, but checkbot will work without it. Based on patch from Adam Griff. 2005-01-23 Adam Griff * checkbot (create_page): Print out more options on results page. 2005-01-21 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Remove automatic version number based on CVS version now that commits will be more frequent than releases. 2004-11-12 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_url): Ignore javascript: URLs instead of generating a 904 error. It would be nice to handle these as well. 2004-05-26 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL: Sync HTML::Parser requirement with required versions of libwww-perl. 2004-05-03 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Write better documentation for --file option. 2004-04-26 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Minor documentation changes thank to Jens Schweikhardt. 2004-04-22 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.75 is released. 2004-04-21 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (print_help): Use a here-doc for the help for easier maintenance. (init_modules): Add --noproxy options to set list of domains which will not be passed through the proxy. 2004-04-18 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_url): Create an error if an unknown scheme is encountered and only ignore known schemes like mailto: 2004-03-30 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Add explanation about error message which indicates lack of SSL support. 2004-03-28 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Add EXAMPLES section to the perldoc documentation with an example of the most simple invocation. Needs more examples... Update help text for --mailto to confirm that more than one address is possible. * checkbot: Add new --cookies option to accept cookies from servers. Based on patch from Roger Pilkey. 2004-02-09 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL: Show correct text if LWP test fails. 2004-01-05 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL: Now require LWP 5.76 to avoid problems with 500 "Need a field name" HTTP errors being generated by LWP. 2003-12-29 Gerald Pfeifer * checkbot: Improve description of --proxy. (print_help): Ditto. 2003-12-21 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (performRequest): $url->authority may not be defined for the URL we are checking. 2003-12-17 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.74 is released * checkbot (add_error): Take into account that status message can be undefined. 2003-12-15 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Put Checkbot errors in a hash to have one set of descriptions around. (handle_doc): Use it. (checkbot_status_message): Use it to ind the status message for a code from HTTP codes, Checkbot codes, or a generic status message. (printServerProblems): Use it. (handle_url): Move checks for --dontwarn and --suppression features from here ... (add_error): ... to here so that it applies to all errors. 2003-12-14 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Document that Checkbot defines its own response codes for common problems. No longer a need for the %warning hash. (add_error): New function to add a new error into the hashes. (handle_url): Use it. (handle_doc): Use it for what previously were warnings. (printServerWarnings): Obsolete as warnings have been changed to use the normal error handling routines. Marked --allow-simple-hosts option as deprecated, because this can now be handled in a more generic way by the --dontwarn mechanism. (print_help): Removed --allow-simple-hosts option from help. (add_to_queue): Move code to check for double slash in URL to ... (handle_doc): ... here as Checkbot error 903. 2003-11-29 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (printServerProblems): Oops. Make sure all output is going to the right file, not stdout. Add new --suppress option which reads a file with response code / URL combinations to be suppressed in the output, based on patch by Rob Chekaluk. (init_suppression): Read suppresson file and fill has with results. (handle_url): Use it. (print_help): Document it. 2003-11-24 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Add example to --ignore argument. 2003-11-23 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (init_modules): Delete commented-out code to enable HTTP 1.1 in LWP. HTTP 1.1 has been the default in LWP for a while and does not need special code to be enabled. 2003-11-21 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (printServerProblems): Don't assume that status_message is defined for all possible codes, based on patch by Thomas Kuerten. 2003-10-18 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL: Require LWP 5.70 because problems with HEAD of ftp:// links have been solved in this release. 2003-09-05 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (printServerProblems): Put line breaks in HTML file in a more logical place. 2003-08-31 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.73 released 2003-08-30 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (printServerProblems): Protect against undefined status. 2003-08-29 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_doc): Ignore URIs matching --ignore as they are being found. (handle_url): Remove check for --ignore option here. Update documentation for --ignore. (print_help): Idem. 2003-08-21 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Made --interval description a bit more clear. 2003-07-26 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (init_modules): Uncomment proxy support, but it now applies to all requests, not just external ones. (print_help): Update --proxy help text. Update perldoc documentation. 2003-07-05 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Additional explanation for --exclude option. 2003-06-28 Bernd Petrovitsch * checkbot.css: Additional cleaning up of the CSS file. 2003-06-26 Bernd Petrovitsch * checkbot: Produce valid XHTML 1.1 pages. * checkbot.css: Clean up of the CSS file. 2003-05-04 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.72 released * checkbot: Applied spelling fixes from Jens Schweikhardt. (clean_up): Factored out of check_links so that it can also be called when we catch a signal. (got_signal): Catch signals like SIGINT and handle them, based on patch by Jens Schweikhardt. 2003-04-06 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_url): No longer ignore URLs with a query string. If checking these is not wanted then the --exclude option can be used, and an example for this is now included in the documentation. 2003-03-30 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (printServerProblems): Add links to different error codes on a server page for quick navigation. 2003-02-22 Paul Merchant, Jr. * checkbot: Initialize the statistics counters to avoid warnings. 2003-01-15 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (output): Correct the check for --verbose; not specifying it now generates no output. 2003-01-06 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_doc): The host name check does not make much sense for news: scheme URLs. 2003-01-03 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (init_globals): Only remove file from default --match argument when there is a path component in the start URL. Initialize problem counter to avoid warning about uninitialized value. 2002-12-29 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.71 released * checkbot (handle_url): Make sure we feed is_internal a string. (handle_url): Use existing variable instead of Referer header to store parent URL. * Checkbot 1.70 created for testing, but not released * checkbot (performRequest): Add HTTP 403 error to list of error codes to retry with a GET. (handle_url): Only follow redirections for internal links. 2002-12-28 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Removed reference to AnyDBM_File because it is not used anywhere. Rewrote global statistics gathering to be more simple and more accurate. Added --filter option which allows rewriting of URLs before they are checked, based on patch from Eli the Bearded . Simplified storage of URLs with problems (get_headers): Removed. (performRequest): Included code from get_headers here. (count_problems): Updated for new storage of URLs (printServerProblems): Idem. (handle_url): Idem. (handle_doc): Idem. (count_problems): Idem. (printServerProblems): Idem. (handle_doc): Add code to report all pages on which a problematic URL appears. (init_globals): Changed default --match argument to exclude final page name. 2002-12-27 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (output): Moved printing, including indentation and verbose checking, to function 'output'. (handle_doc): No more distinction between internal and external links, we throw all links found in the queue. (handle_doc): Removed statistics for now, they are too buggy. (is_checked): New function takes into account that we sometimes translate hostnames to IP addresses. (handle_doc): Use it. (check_internal): Removed dependency on statistics, use actual queue contents to determine when all links are checked. (handle_url): Only query server for file type on application/octet-stream documents. (is_internal): New function to determine if URL is internal. (handle_url): Rewritten to use new functions and to deal with external URLs being mixed in, and generally cleaned up. (handle_url): Moved --internal-only checks here. (check_external): Removed. (check_links): Renamed from check_internal. Added small blurb to documentation on distinction between internal and external links and the way checkbot checks these. * t/test.t: Added simple test case: can checkbot be run without arguments? 2002-12-25 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.69 released 2002-12-25 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (get_headers): Make sure feedback on HEAD requests gets indented properly. 2002-12-23 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (init_globals): Anchor automatic match argument based on start URLs at the beginning. 2002-12-16 Jens Schweikhardt * checkbot (check_external): Fixed printf to be print so that actual information can be printed using --verbose. 2002-12-02 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (get_headers): Also add 406 as an error which might indicate that the web server doesn't like us doing a HEAD, so GET instead. 2002-12-01 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL: Updated based on libwww-perl Makefile.PL. * checkbot: Remove the preamble cruft and just assume perl will be /usr/bin/perl. Therefore also renamed checkbot.pl -> checkbot. Indicate that Checkbot is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself. * checkbot.pl (count_problems): Rewrote debugging code to handle request without header() method, even though this should not be possible it does happen in the wild. (handle_doc): Perform fully-qualified hostname check for all URI's which support a hostname. 2002-11-30 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (add_checked): Use ->can construct to check if URL supports host method. 2002-10-27 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Add hints for recursive or run-away checkbot processes. 2002-09-28 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.68 released 2002-08-05 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Comment out warning about external URLs with non-checkable schemes to avoid lots of useless output. 2002-06-09 Jostle Lemcke * checkbot.pl: Added --allow-simple-hosts option. This option turns off the warnings for unqualified host names. 2002-04-01 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Ignore URLs found in tags. Suggestion from Roman Maeder. 2002-03-31 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (print_help): Mention --style option in help message. (check_internal): Always close CURRENT filehandle, and add warn for potential problems with this based on patch and report from Greg Larkin. * checkbot.pl: Added HINTS AND TIPS section to documentation. Added hint on using passive FTP based on feedback from Roman Maeder. 2002-03-31 Brent Verner * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Only match http and https, not stuff like httpa. 2002-03-31 Paco Hope * checkbot.css: Contributed style sheet for Checkbot. Use with --style option. 2002-01-20 Roman Maeder * checkbot.pl (handle_url): Use select() to sleep instead of sleep() so that sleep interval can be fractional. 2001-12-16 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.67 released 2001-11-16 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Add example for --match argument based on question by Michael Lambert. 2001-11-11 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (count_problems): Quote meta characters in server name and URL when matching them. (handle_doc): Fix two minor bugs related to the move to URI. 2001-11-11 Evaldas Imbrasas * checkbot.pl: Add --language option to allow language negotiation. * checkbot.pl (check_options): Set default for --sleep option to 0. * checkbot.pl (check_internal): Only close if it already exists. 2001-11-03 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (printServerProblems): There might not be a response message. (handle_url): Use status_line instead of code and message for HTTP::Response object. (handle_doc): Also check external gopher links. 2001-10-25 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.66 released * checkbot.pl (get_headers): URI doesn't know about netloc, but it does know about authority. (get_headers): $url is already absolute, no need for ->abs 2001-10-18 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.65 released 2001-10-14 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Print a notice when external non HTTP/FTP URLs are dropped. 2001-09-29 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_modules and other places): Remove URI::URL::strict call and use of new URI::URL because it is obsolete, we should use the URI classes now. 2001-09-23 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_globals): Initialize last checkpoint time with 0 instead of current time, so that we write out a set of pages right at the start. This will catch problems with permissions for these pages as early as possible. 2001-07-01 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (get_server_type): Take into account that we might not learn anything about the server 2001-05-06 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (get_headers): Factored out of check_external so that moving to using GET requests only will be easier later. 2001-04-30 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (send_mail): Really fix printing of starting URLs in email. All URLs are now printed in the subject and body of the message. 2001-04-15 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.64 released 2001-03-13 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (send_mail): Fix printing of starting URL in email. 2001-03-04 Nick Hibma * checkbot.pl (printServerWarnings): Removed duplicate print statement. 2001-02-10 Boris Lantrewitz * checkbot.pl (init_globals): Allow more environment variables to be used to set the temporary directory. (send_mail): Avoid using printf to the handle for those systems where printf on a pipe is not implemented. 2001-01-14 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.63 released 2001-01-02 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL (chk_version): Require LWP 5.50, which contains an important bugfix when dealing with relative redirects. 2001-01-01 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_globals): If no --match is given, construct one based on all the start URLs given. Suggested by Mathieu Guillaume. 2000-12-31 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (create_page): Remove the .bak file when the new file is written, unless --debug is in effect. 2000-12-31 OBARA Kiyotake * checkbot.pl (print_server): Create correct URLs when --file argument contains directories as well as a filename. 2000-12-31 David Brownlee * checkbot.pl (create_page): Fix typo in die message. 2000-12-24 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Added a small blurb in the documentation about the URLs Checkbot will find and check. 2000-12-24 Petter Reinholdtsen * checkbot.pl (handle_url): Deal with redirect responses without Location header. 2000-11-18 Roman Maeder * checkbot.pl (handle_url): Remove check which would not check files named the same as the main report file. If you don't want Checkbot to check its intermediate pages, use the --exclude option. * checkbot.pl (handle_url): Ask server for file type when requesting http:// URLs to be on the safe side, as using guess_media_type() is not always correct. 2000-10-28 Nick Hibma * checkbot.pl (check_external): Only print when --verbose is true. (printServerProblems): Fix proper printing of
. (handle_doc): Include proper URL for report for unqualified URLs. 2000-10-01 TAKAKU Masao * checkbot.pl (print_server): Make pages well-formed by inserting and tags. 2000-09-24 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.62 released 2000-09-16 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (send_mail): Only mention URL in the subject of the mail if one is given through the --url option. (check_external): The ALEPH web server is also broken with respect to HEAD requests. 2000-09-04 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (check_external): JavaWebServer is also broken with respect to HEAD requests. 2000-08-26 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (create_page): Add --style option which allows a link to a CSS file to be included in each Checkbot page. 2000-08-20 Nick Hibma * checkbot.pl (check_external): Some servers don't set the Server: header. Check to see if the server field is set in a response to avoid warnings. * checkbot.pl (add_checked): Add --enable-virtual option to use hostname instead of IP address to distinguish servers. This allows checking of multiple virtual servers. 2000-08-13 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL: Add a check for HTML::Parser. Require latest version, 3.10, because I'm not sure older versions work correctly. 2000-06-29 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.61 released * Makefile.PL (chk_version): Add version checked for in output. 2000-06-18 Larry Gilbert * checkbot.pl (check_external): Use GET instead of HEAD for confused closed-source servers. 2000-06-18 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL (chk_version): require URI 1.07 as it contains bug fixes for using Base URLs. * checkbot.pl: Change email and web address 2000-04-30 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.60 released * checkbot.pl (check_options): Add option --dontwarn to exclude certain types of warnings. Based on idea by David Hoekman. 2000-04-29 Mark Roedel * checkbot.pl (handle_url): Deal with "300 Multiple Choices" response which does not offer a URL to redirect to. 2000-04-09 David Hoekman * checkbot.pl (init_globals): Allow for TMPDIR with or without trailing / 2000-04-08 Hans de Graaff > * checkbot.pl: Updated contact information in file header. 2000-03-26 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (check_options): Add message about skipping of external links. Also removes warning about single use of variable. 2000-03-06 Brian McNett * checkbot.pl: On a Mac, ask command line options through MacPerl mechanism. 2000-02-06 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_globals): Check wether URLs on the command line have a proper host. Thanks to Charles Williams for the report. 2000-01-30 Hans de Graaff * Checkbot 1.59 released * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Use eof instead of parse(undef) to end parsing. 2000-01-15 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Show warnings about hostnames only on the console when --verbose. 2000-01-09 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Added option --internal-only to skip checking of external links altogether. Idea by David Hoekman 2000-01-02 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Use canonical URI from LinkExtor, which simplifies the rest of the logic and gets things working with the new version of LinkExtor. 2000-01-01 Stephane Bortzmeyer * checkbot.pl (init_globals): Create Checkbot workdir in $TMPDIR if defined, /tmp otherwise. 1999-12-31 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Change frag to fragment. 1999-11-07 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Add warning for URLs for which LWP can't determine a hostname, and don't check them further. 1999-10-24 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (print_help): Added line on --interval option. 1999-10-23 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_globals): Fixed proper determination of server prefix if a filename is supplied, thanks to Michael Baumer. 1999-10-02 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_modules): Added use URI. 1999-08-21 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL (chk_version): Added check for URI. 1999-07-17 Hans de Graaff * README: Added blurb on the announcements mailing list. 1999-07-06 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (add_checked): Deal with the fact that a mailto: URL has no host component. Thanks to John Croft for the report. 1999-06-27 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_url): Really fix relative redirection URLs using the URI class. Thanks for Thomas Zander for the report and reproducible failing URL. 1999-05-03 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (printServerWarnings): Also change clustering of URLs. 1999-05-02 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (signature): Add quotes around the URL in the signature. (printServerProblems): Fixed clustering of URLs so that faulty links are listed under the URL that contains them, instead of the other way around. This ordering problem was introduced in 1.53. 1999-04-10 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_url): Make sure a redirected URL is fully qualified (based on the original URL) to avoid dying on it later. Thanks to David Hoekman for the initial analysis. 1999-04-05 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (printAllServers): Taken out of create_page for clarity. (printServerWarnings): Keep warning headers from being printed for each warning. 1999-03-15 Hans de Graaff * README: Explain which Perl modules are needed. 1999-02-20 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (printServerWarnings): Fix printing of warnings so that headers are only printed once. (print_server): get correct IP address for web servers with non-standard port numbers. 1999-02-08 Hans de Graaff * Makefile.PL (chk_version): Added location of Mail::Send. 1999-01-18 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (count_problems): Change counting of problems to deal with new structure. 1999-01-17 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (printServerProblems): Changed to accomodate new inventory of problem response. This new method allow multiple bad links to one URL be all reported all at once. Also use standardized response descriptions based on a patch by Benjamin Franz . 1999-01-10 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (byReferringPage): Added to allow sorting of problems by referer. (byProblem): Removed code to compare by exact message and referer. Removed the pre-amble to generate correct perl path because it is a bit too cumbersome during development. 1998-12-31 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_url): Do a HEAD request when the guessed content-type matches application/octet-stream to get the real content-type from the server. 1998-12-27 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Added warning for HTTP URLs without a fully-qualified hostname. * checkbot.pl (printServerWarnings): Added a mechanism to also display checkbot warnings, unrelated to the HTTP responses, on the results pages. 1998-10-24 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (setup): Explicitly set record separator $/ This appears needed for perl 5.005, and fixes a problem where no URLs would appear to match except the first few. 1998-10-10 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Made POD conform to new scripts format better. 1998-06-21 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_modules): HTML::Parse is no longer needed, removed. Sat Sep 6 16:00:12 1997 Hans de Graaff * checkbot 1.51 released Sat Aug 30 18:05:39 1997 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_globals): assume file: scheme when no scheme is present. * checkbot.pl: Small portability stuff for perl 5.004 and LWP 5.11. Sun Aug 17 08:56:38 1997 Hans de Graaff * README: Changed email addresses to point to new ISP. Mon Apr 28 09:08:29 1997 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Parsing VERSION is somewhat tricky. Fixed. Sun Apr 27 21:02:58 1997 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (check_external): Close EXTERNAL after use. Sun Apr 20 10:24:09 1997 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Fixed a number of small bugs reported by Jost Krieger. Regular expressions can now be used with the options. Added --interval option to denote maximum interval between updates. Sat Apr 5 17:03:46 1997 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_globals): Added checks for URLs without a scheme. Fri Mar 14 11:17:21 1997 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (print_help): Fix typo. Tue Jan 14 16:51:36 1997 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (check_internal): Check whether there are really entries in the new queue when changing queues. Sat Jan 4 14:26:04 1997 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (print_help): --seconds should be --sleep in help. Mon Dec 30 12:03:14 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (handle_url): If a URL is exclude'd, only use HEAD on it, not GET. Starting URLs can now be entered on the command line in addition to the --url option. --url takes precedence. --match is initialized with first URL if not given as separate option. Mon Dec 23 20:21:32 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (print_server_problems): Each error message was evaluated as a regexp, potentially crashing checkbot on a bad regexp (e.g. including the string '++'). Mon Dec 23 15:15:05 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (ip_address): Deal with IP-address not found. Sun Dec 8 12:55:33 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (send_mail): --note didn't work; Checkbot would crash when no external links were found. Wed Dec 4 12:43:14 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (add_checked): All checked URLs are indexed using IP-address to avoid checking pages multiple times for multiple CNAME's. Mon Nov 4 14:19:30 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (send_mail): Braino in URL fixed. Sun Oct 27 20:16:38 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_globals): Don't let --match default to the --url until after we possible change the URL (this happens for file:/ URLs, currently) Wed Oct 23 14:22:15 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (check_point): Oops, checking would occur every minute Mon Oct 21 13:41:48 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (print_help): Added version number to help info. Wed Oct 16 21:05:58 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Added --proxy option for checking external links through a proxy server Sat Sep 28 09:26:48 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl (init_globals): Changed /var/tmp to /tmp. (check_point): Slower exponential rate, upper limit of 3 hours * Makefile.PL: Added check for Mail::Send * README: Added Thu Sep 26 17:01:36 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Switched from short options to long options. I was already running out of meaningful options, so before adding additional stuff I wanted to move to Long options first. You should be able to abbreviate most options to the previous values. Notable exception is -m, which has become --match. Wed Sep 25 10:58:06 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot.pl: Renamed from checkbot Added preamble to set proper path for perl (code from Gisle Aas) * Makefile.PL: First version, installs checkbot and checkbot.1 * checkbot: Changed $revision to $VERSION for MakeMaker. Thu Sep 12 15:09:07 1996 Hans de Graaff * index.html: updated required modules and location. * checkbot: require LWP-5.02, because it fixes a few nasty bugs. Thu Sep 5 16:00:42 1996 Hans de Graaff * index.html: Removed old and out-of-date documentation. Replaced by link to automatically generated html version of POD documentation within Checkbot. * checkbot: Fixed documentation bugs. Really fix the case insensitive comparison. Sun Sep 1 20:31:46 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (print_server_problems): Make comparison for error message case insensitive. Fri Aug 30 20:19:56 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Fixed several typo's. Wed Aug 7 10:06:29 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_doc): The new LinkExtractor is nice, but I shouldn't treat its output as a hash when it is an array, and thus skipping every other link. Mon Aug 5 08:46:24 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (print_server): Fixed silly bug in calculating the percentage of problems on each server. Fri Aug 2 21:38:39 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Added several patches by Bruce Speyer: Added -N note option to go along with -M, -z to suppress reporting errors on matching links. Added enough logic to catch gopher URLS if no gopher server found. Need further logic to parse gopher returned menu for bad file or directory. * checkbot: Made a good start with POD documentation inside the checkbot file. Try 'perldoc checkbot'. * TODO: Added number of suggestions by Luuk de Boer. * checkbot (send_mail): Include summary of links checked in message. Fri Aug 2 13:01:02 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Added check for correct LWP version. We now need 5.01, due to bugs in the handling of the BASE attribute in previous versions. Sat Jul 27 21:13:26 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Added several patches by Bruce Speyer: Optimized some static regular expressions. Fixed not setting the timeout, making the -t option useless. Mon Jul 22 22:28:34 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (create_page): Fixed number of columns in summary output. Sat Jul 20 11:49:23 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (handle_doc): Changed to use the new HTML::LinkExtor, which will be present in LWP5.01. Should be more efficient, and less prone to memory leaks. Sat Jul 13 12:41:23 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot (create_page): Forgot to add the ratio on the page. (check_external): Fix problems with different `wc` output. Sat Jun 22 11:30:12 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Use correct base URL as returned with the document. Only check document when we used 'GET' to receive it. Remove magic guessing with ending slash of starting url. Deal with redirections by inserting redirected URLs into queue again. Thu Jun 20 15:58:20 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Major cleanup of initialization code. Also added todo counts to progression page, and proper todo handling for external links. Sun Jun 16 21:16:28 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Added -M option: send mail when Checkbot is done. Fixed division by zero bug when external links == 0 Tue Jun 4 12:46:39 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Better way to ignore fragments. Sat Jun 1 15:14:52 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Don't print decimals with the precentages. Major update of counting, and printing counts. Cleaned up variables, corrected counting, made display more consistent and clear. Wed May 29 21:18:26 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Small fixes to support lwp-win32 as well, thanks to Martin Cleaver. Mon May 27 09:21:30 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: oops, small error in regexp caused script to append a slash to almost all start-url's. Fixed. * checkbot (handle_doc): External links without full URL's were not always handled properly. Sun May 26 10:04:39 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: If the starting URL doesn't end in a slash, and doesn't have an extension, assume we need to add a slash. * index.html: Add version number to web page, and make sure it gets updated automatically. Wed May 22 09:58:36 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Changed verbose output of links found on pages. Tue May 14 16:43:38 1996 Hans de Graaff * TODO: updated with respect to recent changes. Mon May 13 15:06:05 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Added LWP version number to agent field, changed page update policy, and updated script to LWP5b13. Sat May 4 21:38:56 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Changed checked array to an associative array. Will consume more memory, but drastically cut back on lookup time. Rewrote handle_url logic to be more clear. Also fixed bug where servers would be added to the list unjustly. Sleep was only done on problem links, not after each request. Also added checks for already checked links while scanning through the document, and only add those links not checked to the queue. Add percentage problem links for each individual server. Mon Apr 29 08:43:12 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Deal with unknown or non-determinable server types. Only add links to the external queue when we know we can check their protocol. Additional changes to layout and content of pages. Sun Apr 28 21:16:51 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Rewrote report page. Wed Apr 24 22:39:43 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Added a number of patches by Tim MacKenzie Added -s option to set the seconds of sleep between requests. Remove work files when *not* debugging. Only compile -m and -x regular expressions once. Also check external ftp and nntp links (using HEAD only). Get rid of huge memory leak! (Also noted by Fabrice Gaillard) Fri Mar 29 10:58:24 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Got rid of warnings about some variables. Fixed problem with incorrect automatic -m argument when scanning local files. Sun Mar 24 18:01:05 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Added code to support regular expressions with the -m and -x arguments. Thanks to Thomas Thiel for the patch and suggestions. No strict checking on schemes, fixes problem with unknown schemes stopping checkbot. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Foucou. * checkbot: Should create direcory for temporary files, and remove it afterwards. Noted by Steve Fisk. Sat Mar 16 13:40:48 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Made a number of changes from or based on patches by Thomas Thiel: Added missing t option in Getopts string. Made -m argument optional. If not given, the -u argument is also used as the start argument. Temporary files are now created in a separate directory. Its name contains the PID of Checkbot, to allow several concurrent Checkbots being run. Also remove temporary files, unless debugging. Implement file:// scheme to allow direct checking (without HTTP server) Fri Mar 15 11:06:13 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Fixed warnings (and in the process, a small bug as well). Added URL and proper name to help. Sat Mar 2 11:51:45 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Added 'require 5.002' (because libwww-perl5b8 requires it). Added 'use strict', and fixed problems resulting from this. This can be seen as a first step towards fixing the huge memory-consumption. Updated help. Tue Feb 27 09:57:57 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Fixed bug which occured when -x option was not present. Updated script to use libwww-perl5b8 function names. This is not backward compatible with versions prior to beta 8. Mon Feb 26 12:46:08 1996 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Fixed bug with Referer header for external URL's. Also make server pages auto-refresh. Sat Feb 24 11:48:15 1996 Hans de Graaff * TODO: New file. * checkbot: Added single -x option as an additional exclude pattern. This overrules the -m match attribute. Mon Dec 11 14:13:30 1995 Hans de Graaff * index.html Added libwww-perl5 address, and added a usage section. * checkbot.pl Removed this old perl4 version. Fri Dec 8 13:41:43 1995 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Major rewrite of most of the internal routines. The routines are much more structured now, and broken up into smaller routines. I also changed the way checked links are remembered. It should be much less efficient, CPU-wise, but more efficient memory-wise. Fri Nov 24 16:45:18 1995 Hans de Graaff * checkbot: Fixed small problems, mostly with output. Fixed checking of external links Changed sorting order * checkbot: Perl5 version now works for the most part. Although Checkbot isn't fully finished I at least feel confident to release it. Fri Aug 25 11:23:36 1995 Hans de Graaff * Made a start with the perl5 version of checkbot. The modules in perl5 (e.g. LWP) look very promising, and should make checkbot quite a bit better.