Hi,

    If you are interrested in checking if a link on a Web file is broken or not :
    I advice you to read the Perl CookBook of O'reilly on Chapter 20.7 : 


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# churl - check urls

use HTML::LinkExtor;
use LWP::Simple qw(get head);

$base_url = shift
    or die "usage: $0 <start_url>\n";
$parser = HTML::LinkExtor->new(undef, $base_url);
$parser->parse(get($base_url));
@links = $parser->links;
print "$base_url: \n";
foreach $linkarray (@links) {
    my @element  = @$linkarray;
    my $elt_type = shift @element;
    while (@element) {
        my ($attr_name , $attr_value) = splice(@element, 0, 2);
        if ($attr_value->scheme =~ /\b(ftp|https?|file)\b/) {
            print "  $attr_value: ", head($attr_value) ? "OK" : "BAD",
+ "\n";
        }
    }
}

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Here's an example of a program run:
% churl http://www.wizards.com
http://www.wizards.com:
  FrontPage/FP_Color.gif:  OK
  FrontPage/FP_BW.gif:  BAD
  #FP_Map:  OK
  Games_Library/Welcome.html:  OK

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In reply to Re: Checking if File Exists by DarkGoth
in thread Checking if File Exists by Perdrix

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