NAME

httpcheck -- check if a particular web-pages exists

SYNOPSIS

USAGE: httpcheck [-heEs] [url1 url2...]

DESCRIPTION

httpcheck is a post-processor for blck to allow for checking of absolute linke of the type http://....

OPTIONS

-h this help

-e print only results if an error was found

-E Like -e but print a . for every checked url.

-s print result in short format without the URL

If no URL is given then httpcheck reads output from \"blck -a\" on stdin and processes it. Note: This program does only http type of protocol checks. It can e.g not check https or ftp.

EXAMPLES: httpcheck http://www.oche.de/ blck -a *.html | httpcheck -E

You may set the environment variable HTTP_PROXY and NO_PROXY or http_proxy and no_proxy to use a proxy. If both are set then the uppercase version takes precedence. The format of the http_proxy variable looks like "http://www-proxy:8080/" and the no_proxy is a comma or space seperated list of servers or domains for which a direct connection should be made.

NOTES

If you are interessted in a link checker to check links only via the web-server then this is not the right program for you. Other programs like e.g curl (http://curl.haxx.nu/ or http://curl.haxx.se/) can be used if you want to check your web-pages only remotely via a web server. curl comes with a dead link checker called checklinks.pl.

AUTHOR

xlnk is part of the Tagreader package and was written by Guido Socher [guido(at)linuxfocus.org]