- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:01:44 +0900
- To: hes@unity.ncsu.edu
- Cc: site-comments@w3.org
> Dear Sirs; > I have found your Link Checker (at > http://validator.w3.org/checklink/ ) > to be a major help in keeping my web pages working properly. > > The reason I'm asking is that I've been unable to get it to work on > web pages with more than a few (10 or so) links. It appears to time > out > or something. I've tried to use it with "Summary only" checked - on > e.g. http://www.ncsu.edu/it/open_source/chitre.html > > After a few minutes it says "Done" at the bottom of the browser - but > never shows anything after the "This may take some time ..." line. The link checker will not time out, but, as you saw in the documentation, browsers will tend to "decide they have waited long enough" if the link checker does not provide any output during a certain lapse of time. I have just tried processing http://www.ncsu.edu/it/open_source/chitre.html with the link checker, with success, both in summary and verbose modes). From the very well detailed description you gave, I suspect that at the time you were trying to use the link checker, there was a long latency to check the link to link http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/software.html (repeated tests gave me between 2 and 26 seconds for this server to reply, which seems to confirm my suspicion), and that made the link checker "extra slow". We are in the process of experimenting with solutions to this timeout issue. In the meantime, if you are a fairly heavy user of the link checker, I can suggest to install the link checker and use its commandline version, see: http://validator.w3.org/docs/checklink.html#install Regards, -- olivier
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