2008-10-15 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.80 is released
2008-07-08 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <Brandon_Bell@bcit.ca>
* checkbot: mms scheme can be ignored safely.
2007-04-30 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (printAllServers): Clarify that 'Unique links' actually
is 'Documents scanned'.
2007-02-26 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (handle_doc): Handle the case where decoded_content is
not available as per bug 1665075.
2007-02-26 Gerald Preifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
* checkbot (check_point): Simplify and add a comment.
2007-02-26 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.79 is released
* RELEASE-PROCESS: Add the release process documentation.
2007-01-27 Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
* checkbot (init_suppression): Check and provide error if
suppression file is in fact a directory.
2006-12-28 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: Add summary to tables to make files XHTML 1.1 compliant.
2006-11-16 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <en@lightwerk.com>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.78 is released
2005-12-18 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (printServerProblems): Make pages XHTML compliant again.
2005-12-18 Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: React in a more subtle way if the Time::Duration
module is not found.
2005-09-22 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* Makefile.PL: Check for presence of Net::SSL and explain the
effects if this it not present.
2005-08-20 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.76 is released.
2005-06-07 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: Add documentation on use of file:/// URLs.
2005-01-23 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <griff@computer.org>
* checkbot (create_page): Print out more options on results page.
2005-01-21 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: Remove automatic version number based on CVS version
now that commits will be more frequent than releases.
2004-11-12 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Makefile.PL: Sync HTML::Parser requirement with required
versions of libwww-perl.
2004-05-03 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: Write better documentation for --file option.
2004-04-26 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: Minor documentation changes thank to Jens
Schweikhardt.
2004-04-22 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.75 is released.
2004-04-21 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: Add explanation about error message which indicates
lack of SSL support.
2004-03-28 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Makefile.PL: Show correct text if LWP test fails.
2004-01-05 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <gerald@pfeifer.com>
* checkbot: Improve description of --proxy.
(print_help): Ditto.
2003-12-21 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (performRequest): $url->authority may not be defined
for the URL we are checking.
2003-12-17 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.74 is released
* checkbot (add_error): Take into account that status message can
be undefined.
2003-12-15 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: Add example to --ignore argument.
2003-11-23 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (printServerProblems): Put line breaks in HTML file in
a more logical place.
2003-08-31 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.73 released
2003-08-30 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (printServerProblems): Protect against undefined status.
2003-08-29 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: Made --interval description a bit more clear.
2003-07-26 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot: Additional explanation for --exclude option.
2003-06-28 Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
* checkbot.css: Additional cleaning up of the CSS file.
2003-06-26 Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
* checkbot: Produce valid XHTML 1.1 pages.
* checkbot.css: Clean up of the CSS file.
2003-05-04 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (printServerProblems): Add links to different error
codes on a server page for quick navigation.
2003-02-22 Paul Merchant, Jr. <Paul.L.Merchant.Jr@Dartmouth.EDU>
* checkbot: Initialize the statistics counters to avoid warnings.
2003-01-15 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (output): Correct the check for --verbose; not
specifying it now generates no output.
2003-01-06 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (handle_doc): The host name check does not make much
sense for news: scheme URLs.
2003-01-03 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <eli@netusa.net>.
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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.69 released
2002-12-25 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (get_headers): Make sure feedback on HEAD requests gets
indented properly.
2002-12-23 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot (init_globals): Anchor automatic match argument based
on start URLs at the beginning.
2002-12-16 Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
* checkbot (check_external): Fixed printf to be print so that
actual information can be printed using --verbose.
2002-12-02 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl (add_checked): Use ->can construct to check if URL
supports host method.
2002-10-27 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl: Add hints for recursive or run-away checkbot
processes.
2002-09-28 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.68 released
2002-08-05 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <jostle@users.sourceforge.net>
* checkbot.pl: Added --allow-simple-hosts option. This option
turns off the warnings for unqualified host names.
2002-04-01 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Ignore URLs found in <base>
tags. Suggestion from Roman Maeder.
2002-03-31 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <brent@rcfile.org>
* checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Only match http and https, not stuff
like httpa.
2002-03-31 Paco Hope <paco@paco.to>
* checkbot.css: Contributed style sheet for Checkbot. Use with
--style option.
2002-01-20 Roman Maeder <maeder@mathconsult.ch>
* checkbot.pl (handle_url): Use select() to sleep instead of
sleep() so that sleep interval can be fractional.
2001-12-16 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.67 released
2001-11-16 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl: Add example for --match argument based on question
by Michael Lambert.
2001-11-11 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <evaldas@wolfram.com>
* 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 <CURRENT> if it already
exists.
2001-11-03 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.65 released
2001-10-14 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Print a notice when external non
HTTP/FTP URLs are dropped.
2001-09-29 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl (get_server_type): Take into account that we might
not learn anything about the server
2001-05-06 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.64 released
2001-03-13 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl (send_mail): Fix printing of starting URL in email.
2001-03-04 Nick Hibma <n_hibma@qubesoft.com>
* checkbot.pl (printServerWarnings): Removed duplicate print statement.
2001-02-10 Boris Lantrewitz <lantrewi@do.isst.fhg.de>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.63 released
2001-01-02 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* Makefile.PL (chk_version): Require LWP 5.50, which contains an
important bugfix when dealing with relative redirects.
2001-01-01 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl (create_page): Remove the .bak file when the new
file is written, unless --debug is in effect.
2000-12-31 OBARA Kiyotake <obara@vc-net.ne.jp>
* checkbot.pl (print_server): Create correct URLs when --file
argument contains directories as well as a filename.
2000-12-31 David Brownlee <abs@purplei.com>
* checkbot.pl (create_page): Fix typo in die message.
2000-12-24 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl: Added a small blurb in the documentation about the
URLs Checkbot will find and check.
2000-12-24 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
* checkbot.pl (handle_url): Deal with redirect responses without
Location header.
2000-11-18 Roman Maeder <maeder@mathconsult.ch>
* 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 <n_hibma@qubesoft.com>
* checkbot.pl (check_external): Only print when --verbose is true.
(printServerProblems): Fix proper printing of <hr>.
(handle_doc): Include proper URL for report for unqualified URLs.
2000-10-01 TAKAKU Masao <masao@ulis.ac.jp>
* checkbot.pl (print_server): Make pages well-formed by inserting
<html> and <body> tags.
2000-09-24 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.62 released
2000-09-16 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* checkbot.pl (check_external): JavaWebServer is also broken with
respect to HEAD requests.
2000-08-26 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <n_hibma@qubesoft.com>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <hans@degraaff.org>
* Checkbot 1.61 released
* Makefile.PL (chk_version): Add version checked for in output.
2000-06-18 Larry Gilbert <larry@n2h2.com>
* checkbot.pl (check_external): Use GET instead of HEAD for
confused closed-source servers.
2000-06-18 Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <roedelm@letu.edu>
* checkbot.pl (handle_url): Deal with "300 Multiple Choices"
response which does not offer a URL to redirect to.
2000-04-09 David Hoekman <dhoekman@halcyon.com>
* checkbot.pl (init_globals): Allow for TMPDIR with or without
trailing /
2000-04-08 Hans de Graaff <Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>>
* checkbot.pl: Updated contact information in file header.
2000-03-26 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl (check_options): Add message about skipping of
external links. Also removes warning about single use of variable.
2000-03-06 Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>
* checkbot.pl: On a Mac, ask command line options
through MacPerl mechanism.
2000-02-06 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* Checkbot 1.59 released
* checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Use eof instead of parse(undef) to end
parsing.
2000-01-15 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Show warnings about hostnames only on
the console when --verbose.
2000-01-09 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl: Added option --internal-only to skip checking of
external links altogether. Idea by David Hoekman
<dhoekman@halcyon.com>
2000-01-02 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
* checkbot.pl (init_globals): Create Checkbot workdir in $TMPDIR
if defined, /tmp otherwise.
1999-12-31 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl (handle_doc): Change frag to fragment.
1999-11-07 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl (print_help): Added line on --interval option.
1999-10-23 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl (init_modules): Added use URI.
1999-08-21 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* Makefile.PL (chk_version): Added check for URI.
1999-07-17 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* README: Added blurb on the announcements mailing list.
1999-07-06 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl (printServerWarnings): Also change clustering of URLs.
1999-05-02 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* README: Explain which Perl modules are needed.
1999-02-20 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* Makefile.PL (chk_version): Added location of Mail::Send.
1999-01-18 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl (count_problems): Change counting of problems to
deal with new structure.
1999-01-17 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <snowhare@nihongo.org>.
1999-01-10 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl: Made POD conform to new scripts format better.
1998-06-21 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl (init_modules): HTML::Parse is no longer needed,
removed.
Sat Sep 6 16:00:12 1997 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot 1.51 released
Sat Aug 30 18:05:39 1997 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* 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 <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* README: Changed email addresses to point to new ISP.
Mon Apr 28 09:08:29 1997 Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>
* checkbot.pl: Parsing VERSION is somewhat tricky. Fixed.
Sun Apr 27 21:02:58 1997 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot.pl (check_external): Close EXTERNAL after use.
Sun Apr 20 10:24:09 1997 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot.pl (init_globals): Added checks for URLs without a scheme.
Fri Mar 14 11:17:21 1997 Hans de Graaff <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot.pl (print_help): Fix typo.
Tue Jan 14 16:51:36 1997 Hans de Graaff <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot.pl (print_help): --seconds should be --sleep in help.
Mon Dec 30 12:03:14 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot.pl (ip_address): Deal with IP-address not found.
Sun Dec 8 12:55:33 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot.pl (send_mail): Braino in URL fixed.
Sun Oct 27 20:16:38 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot.pl (check_point): Oops, checking would occur every minute
Mon Oct 21 13:41:48 1996 Hans de Graaff <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot.pl (print_help): Added version number to help info.
Wed Oct 16 21:05:58 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot.pl: Added --proxy option for checking external links
through a proxy server
Sat Sep 28 09:26:48 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot (print_server_problems):
Make comparison for error message case insensitive.
Fri Aug 30 20:19:56 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot: Fixed several typo's.
Wed Aug 7 10:06:29 1996 Hans de Graaff <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot (create_page):
Fixed number of columns in summary output.
Sat Jul 20 11:49:23 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot: Better way to ignore fragments.
Sat Jun 1 15:14:52 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot: Small fixes to support lwp-win32 as well, thanks to
Martin Cleaver.
Mon May 27 09:21:30 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot: Changed verbose output of links found on pages.
Tue May 14 16:43:38 1996 Hans de Graaff <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* TODO: updated with respect to recent changes.
Mon May 13 15:06:05 1996 Hans de Graaff <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* checkbot: Rewrote report page.
Wed Apr 24 22:39:43 1996 Hans de Graaff <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <Hans.deGraaff@twi72.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <J.J.deGraaff@twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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 <graaff@is.twi.tudelft.nl>
* 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.