How does a web site authoring program check for broken links?
10.October, 2009
IFSM question. I need to explain why you still need to check links by hand when using a web site authoring program and a situation in which the program would not identify the link as broken when it is. Please help. I am totally stumped.
An authoring program cannot always detect a broken link correctly. The reason is, the website could be setup to redirect you to a "default" page if the link you are requesting is no longer available. So the authoring program (or any program) will still think its pointing to a correct link because it doesn’t get an error. But technically, the link is broken because it no longer displays the page you requested. So always do a manual link search to check for outdated links.
10.October, 2009 um 2:53 pm
An authoring program cannot always detect a broken link correctly. The reason is, the website could be setup to redirect you to a "default" page if the link you are requesting is no longer available. So the authoring program (or any program) will still think its pointing to a correct link because it doesn’t get an error. But technically, the link is broken because it no longer displays the page you requested. So always do a manual link search to check for outdated links.
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