We are starting a beta test period for the latest version of the W3C Link Checker (aka checklink) today: http://validator.w3.org:8001/checklink This new version brings in a few rather important changes (full list below), and we would really like to get feedback on it, notably on these two points: - Our implementation of the Robots exclusion standard. This was the feature most discussed after the last release, and we have implemented it as described at: http://validator.w3.org/docs/checklink.html#bot - One UI question: Should the "Check linked documents recursively" checkbox be removed? Recursion is implicit if there's anything in the "depth" field, so the checkbox may be redundant, or confusing. * CHANGES * Here is a summarized list of changes since released version 3.9.2. A full changelog is also attached with this message. - Support for the robots exclusion standard has been added. - Sleep 1 second between requests to servers. - Cookie handling logic is now more robust and predictable. - Harmonized layout with the Markup Validator. - Do not send an Accept-Language header at all if the client did not send us one. Previously, "Accept-Language: *" was sent by default. - Miscellaneous markup, layout, and documentation improvements, minor bug fixes and warning cleanups. * FEEDBACK * We hope you will help us improve the link checker (a.k.a checklink) by sending thoughts and bug reports related to this beta test to the public mailing list www-validator: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/ Since this list is used for feedback on several different tools, we suggest that you tag your messages regarding checklink in the subject of your e-mail, e.g: Subject: [checklink] bug report - .... Developers are also invited to check the code : http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/perl/modules/W3C/LinkChecker/ Congratulations to Ville Skyttä for his lead work, and thanks a lot to all of you for the feedback since the latest release! For the W3C QA tools development Team, -- olivier Thereaux - W3C / QA / Dev http://www.w3.org/People/olivier - http://www.w3.org/QA/
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