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Re: More beginners' projects
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: More beginners' projects
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:55:28 +0100 (CET)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <zackw at stanford dot edu>
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.
> 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.
Gerald
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