More beginners' projects

[Gerald Pfeifer]

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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