LinkController 0.37 review

LinkController is a group of programs designed to take away much of the work of maintaining the links in a web site

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Michael De La Rue

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LinkController is a group of programs designed to take away much of the work of maintaining the links in a web site. Instead of the user running the program checking whether links are broken, LinkController does this automatically. When it finds a broken link it checks it several times across several days before reporting it broken. This means that if a link is repaired in the meantime (a common case), the user will never be bothered.

All the functionalities are in place for testing links and repairing problem identified. The software is under development so stability is totally not guaranteed, but then with the exception of the fix-link program, there shouldn't be much risk of data loss so don't worry and make sure you backup your web pages just like normal.

Here are some key features of "LinkController":
repeatedly checks a link before declaring it broken
rapid repair of links based on database
easy but configurable reporting
access to pages requiring authentication (new/experimental)
CGI pages for reporting and repair
scalability - thousands of links across thousands of pages possible
low network impact: slow checking and well spread
low resource utilisation: mostly uses HEAD requests
configurability
designed for multi-user use

What's New in This Release:
Bugfix for checking of incorrect links which get into the database somehow.