some other crowd now has linkscan trademarked

Perhaps some other crowd has legitimately purchased the intellectual property of the previous licensors. Consult your legal team before proceeding further.

I have tried to find the original people from elsop who closed shop in 2010 and contacted the company using LinkScan™ now (not the same ppl or software). i've had the script since 2002 (upgrading as it came out) and used it for years on several sites (3 legit keys) then stopped for 10 years and now want to use it again

I don't know anything about that software. But it sounds like a software that connects to the internet and is 14 years old.

For one thing, i don't think it will be ABLE to connect to most things in the internet, because encryption standards have changed and the old algorithms don't work anymore due to security problems.

HTTP has also been updated, and websites have transitioned from HTML4 to HTML5.

Sorry to say this, but even if this was the best software in its category¹ back then, it's now utter garbage full of security holes.

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¹ Although i don't know the software, i can assume the company going under meant that the software probably wasn't all that good after all and didn't attract many paying customers...

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elsewhere... closed.

Citing brother choroba

Crossposted to StackOverflow.

It's considered polite to inform about crossposting, so that people not attending both sites don't waste their efforts hacking a problem already solved at the other end of the internets.

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sorry didn't know that

Rather than use something which doesn't exist any more, and doesn't seem to have done so for quite some time, depending on how complex your needs are there are modern alternatives Minion - linkcheck or Check links with HTTP::Simple, among many other search results.

yeah i have checked out many but this a very good app with features others don't have and i think it deserves reawakening :) i would love to have been able to find the elsop guys but they appear to have fallen off the edge of the world :(

"this a very good app with features others don't have"

If they don't exist, implement them.

"AVG Technologies is making its LinkScanner available to download free of charge as a full German version. LinkScanner is designed to protect users from drive-by downloads and phishing attacks by flagging search results in Internet Explorer and Firefox that link to websites with malicious code." source

According to this article, they didn't necessarily produce quality software.

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