Re: checklink: Link checker unable to read working urls

Hi Bjoern,

Thanks for your reply.

> The server is broken, it responds with 404 to the HEAD request *and* the
> response contains a body,
> 
>   % http-head http://www.panasonic.co.uk/dvd-recorders/dmre85hebs/index.htm
>   HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found
>   Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:47:08 GMT
>   Connection: close
>   Content-Type: text/html
>   Content-Length: 102
>   
>   <html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The system cannot find the file specified. </body></html>

How bizarre.  Seems to be an MS-Windows 2000 box.  Can you tell which
vendor the httpd server is from?  Perhaps we can give them a bug report.

>>http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1939225&mode=thread&tid=156
>>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/2257257&tid=126&tid=1
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis
> 
> Slashdot has a robots.txt that prohibes access (though I would expect
> checklink to tell you that so there might be something else going on),
> wikipedia.org blocks checklink,

I wonder why they block checklink?  Is there a way to change the
checklink user-agent from the web page so I can check as though I am
using Mozilla?

Kind regards

JG

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Received on Saturday, 18 September 2004 23:47:13 UTC