in reply to Merlyns Web Link checker

Unless you happen to be the webmaster for sun.com, DO NOT RUN THIS ON SUN.COM OR ANY DOMAIN FOR WHICH YOU ARE NOT THE ADMINISTRATOR.

{sigh}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: Merlyns Web Link checker
by pegasus (Beadle) on Feb 28, 2002 at 05:51 UTC

    Please forgive me for asking, but why? (sorry if that's lame, but I really don't get your meaning from the context.)

    I'll admit that I'm not an admin, but why wouldn't I want to make sure the links are good on a site I frequent? Wouldn't it save me some time to avoid the bad ones up front?

      • It's not your job to check the links of someone else's site.
      • The link checker doesn't respect the Robot Rules, and will wander blindly into robot-hostile territory.

      You wouldn't believe the number of lamers that come check stonehenge.com's site hitting thousands of robot-hostile URLs because the first few versions of this program had a live URL pointing at my site. I finally put a very-early block in my website to keep people from doing it. And it still happens! And I no longer use live URLs in my examples. Some people are just Lacking Clue.

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker