Re: ANN: alternative to cURL for debugging URIs

In message <200910121602.23834.hartig@informatik.hu-berlin.de>, Olaf 
Hartig <hartig@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes
>Dear LODers,
>
>We announce a new tool for Linked Data publishers as well as developers of
>Linked Data based applications. You may use our tool [1] as an alternative to
>the command line tool cURL for debugging Linked Data sites [2]. Our tool
>allows you to dereference URIs and it visualizes the HTTP response of the
>server. In contrast to cURL, you may directly select each URI that occurs in
>the response in order to initiate the dereferencing of the selected URI with
>our tool. Hence, with our tool you may avoid the cumbersome copying and
>pasting of URIs on the command line as is necessary with curl. Furthermore,
>you may view the response body in different RDF serialization formats and you
>may inspect RDF data embedded in XHTML+RDFa documents. To make our tool
>a real Linked Data application that can also be accessed by software agents we
>embed an RDF description of the visualized HTTP messages in the HTML output.

Very nice.  The only glitch I found was when URLs contain the ampersand 
character, e.g.:

http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/object/GRMDC.C104.2

when resolved as HTML yields a 301 Moved Permanently, whose URL should 
include the trailing "&objectname=GRMDC.C104.2" (but doesn't).

Richard
-- 
Richard Light

Received on Monday, 12 October 2009 14:16:14 UTC