[Tutor] Looking for the nomenclature of an HTML "link checker"

[Kent Johnson]

It's called a link checker. Here is one you might want to look at: 
http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/

At 06:48 PM 9/23/2004 -0700, Tony Cappellini wrote:

>I'm sure ther eis a python recipe for this, but I don't know wha tthe
>correct nomenclature is.
>
>I'm looking for a Python program that will Walk through all of the links
>in an html page, to validate that the ALL of the links are correct (no
>typos).
>
>I'm not looking for an html validator to tell me that an html page doens
>tcomply with a spec.
>
>I want the program to actually go out to the URL, and simulate clicking on
>the links, and tell me if any links are broken.
>
>What is this functionality called ??
>
>
>thanks
>
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