- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:02:30 +0100 (BST)
- To: Tony Rogers <azgul@wam.umd.edu>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Tony Rogers wrote: > As webmaster of an incredibly huge site, I found myself wishing that the > HTML validator had a similar feature. Does anyone know of a validator that > can check multiple pages--or, say, all the webpages in a single > directory--by giving it a single command? Spidering and instant-response don't go well together. The downside to the link-checker is that it's a badly-behaved robot (a well-behaved robot will limit itself to - say - one URL per host per minute). The WDG validator[1] offers the option to spider a small site. I can't recollect OTTOMH what limits it imposes, but it's something of the order of magnitude of 100 pages. If you want to spider a large site, you'll need a well-behaved spider that collects information in background, offering you the facility to query it for problems like invalid pages or broken links - or emailing you a report. Site Valet[2] offers those capabilities. [1] http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ [2] http://valet.webthing.com/ -- Nick Kew In need of paying work - http://www.webthing.com/~nick/cv.html
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