I'd been wondering for a while why the link checker, on some machine, seems to "hang" forever when one launches a job, eventually giving the whole page in a burst, versus other hosts where the link checker UI and early results would first load, followed by gradual output of the rest of the results. Today I eventually tracked that down to the usage (or not) of mod_deflate in apache. Mod_deflate will keep the whole page in store and output it all at once. That's nice if one has small, fast-loading pages… but not so much in the case of the link checker. I removed the deflate modules from apache on both hosts for validator.w3.org, and now get the "desired behaviour". That might be worth a note in the linkchecker installation guide. http://validator.w3.org/checklink now sports version 4.4 of the link checker, BTW. Gotta send it to CPAN and announce. -- olivierReceived on Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:37:40 UTC
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