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Linklint Documentation - Known Bugs
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Linklint Documentation - Known Bugs
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Linklint has been used on hundreds (maybe thousands) of sites around
the world for over four years. When it was initially released (in
1997) many bugs were reported and fixed. After that, there were only
a small handful of bug reports (all of which were fixed in release
2.3).
<p>
If you read all of the documentation and then start using Linklint
there is a very high probability that it will work correctly. In the
spirit of Perl, Linklint has been designed to "<i>do the right
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If you think you have found a bug, please let us know at <b><a href="mailto:bugs@linklint.org">bugs@linklint.org</a></b>.
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It is often helpful if you include:
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<li> The version of linklint you are using (linklint -version)
<li> The version of Perl you are using (perl -V)
<li> The name and version of your operating system
<li> Your Linklint command line and/or command file(s)
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Requests for information and comments are also welcomed. You can send
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No doubt about it, Linklint can be a big memory hog (for large sites).
We have received several reports of Linklint being unable (or
unwilling) to write the HTML output files after doing a site check.
These have all been traced back to memory problems.
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We tried to optimize Linklint for speed and use a lot of memory in
order to make it fast. We have had one report that there is a huge
difference in memory consumption depending on the operating system
Linklint is running under. It was reported that a Sun used almost
1/10th the memory as Linux when checking the same site ( 68M on the
Sun system versus about 464M on Linux).
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There is a clear need for:
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(a) a re-write in Object Oriented Perl 5
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This could significantly ease memory usage with no (or very little)
sacrifice in speed.
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(b) hooks to a database back-end
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This would virtually eliminate the memory problems but there could
be a significant reduction in speed.
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In the meantime, if you are running out of memory there are <b><a href="hints.html#memory">several hints</a></b> that will help ease this
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Linklint parses HTML files as fast as possible. It was designed to be
a fast <i>link checker</i> and not an <i>HTML validator</i>.
Originally Linklint was written "to spec" but after a flurry of bug
reports (and fixes) it now does a very good job at emulating a
Netscape Browser including many of this browsers idiosyncrasies.
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One trick that lets Linklint parse HTML quickly is to use the "<"
character as the effective "new-line", so HTML files are split on
"<" as they are read. This is very fast but has two downsides.
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<li> (<b>minor</b>) If your HTML tags contains "<" inside of HTML
tags as in
<tt><img src=back.gif alt="<<<"><tt>
then Linklint will need to do some backtracking (which will
slow it down a bit. Solution: always use &lt; instead
of < inside of HTML tags. Since this use of bare "<"
inside of HTML tags is uncommon Linklint remains very fast
"on average".
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<li> (<b>occasional problem</b>) if an HTML tag is missing a closing
">" or if you have
a bare "<" character in the text of your page, Linklint will
read in everything in the file until the next > (or
the end of file) as a single tag. This can cause a memory
problem (<b><a href="#memory">see above</a></b>.).
These problems are rare and can usually be tracked down quickly.
<br>
<b>Solutions:</b>
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Use Weblint to check the HTML in your pages before link checking.
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Use the log.txt Linklint output file to track down the offending
page (it is usually the last page checked).
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Linklint will not be able to track down links that require specific
visitor form input. For example, a search engine site uses form input
from visitors to generate new HTML pages. These pages would not be
checked by Linklint. Likewise, if you have written your own CGI
program that uses the <i>IsMap</i> attribute to create new links
depending on where a visitor clicks on an image, Linklint will not be
able to find these links.
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