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Re: More beginners' projects
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:55:28AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > * Set up a system that automatically checks the mirrors list regularly for
> > mirrors that have gone away, are persistently down, or are very out of
> > date (the last being easy to do for those carrying snapshots, harder for
> > those with releases only).
>
> That would be nice indeed. I believe DJ Delorie once did something along
> these lines.
Can his script be dug out?
> > This could be extended to check for other broken links on the web
> > pages, including links which lead to a permanent HTTP redirect and
> > those leading to a "this page has moved" page.
>
> Apart from the latter (which is basically an AI task), I am doing this
> on a regular base already.
By hand, or automated?
zw