Re: checklink: Recursive search - doesn't report file name where broken link was found. from Ville Skyttä on 2010-03-31 (www-validator@w3.org from March 2010)

From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:43:25 +0300
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <201003312143.26113.ville.skytta@iki.fi>

On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Guy Bloomfield wrote:
> I gave the link checker my homepage and told it to search recursively 2
> levels down.  It found a broken link and tells me it's on line 79.  It
> does not tell me on which page it is on though.

I suppose it could do somwhat better, but it does tell it: look for headings 
in the result document that start with "Processing"; the one preceding the 
results where the broken link is reported contains the URL and a link to the 
document where issues listed in that particular results section were found.

Received on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:43:54 UTC