Re: Testing URLcheck

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

James A. Treacy wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:21:28PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Something strange I noticed while reading urlcheck's output:
> > 
> > | Looking into http://www.debian.org/events/2001/0504-linuxtag-braunschweig
> > |   http://braunschweiger.linuxtage.de/ : IOError: gave up on site (15 second limit)
> > |   http://braunschweiger.linuxtage.de/ : IOError: gave up on site (15 second limit)
> > |   http://braunschweiger.linuxtage.de/ : IOError: gave up on site (15 second limit)
> > 
> > What's that?  Some connection limit?  If so could urlcheck be advised
> > to check such an address later?  Additionally, could urlcheck cache
> > pages?
> > 
> The default timeout is quite long (2min?) and causes the script to take an incredibly

Doh!

> long time to run so I used a signal to shorten it. The message shows the time before
> timing out, so if the site actually works you can ignore the message.

Yes, it works.  There are just a lot of such reports produced by
urlcheck and it takes quite a while checking all of them.

> 
> > | Looking into http://www.debian.org/events/2001/0704-debcon
> > |   http://www.debian.org/events/2001/0704-debcon.fr.html : Error = (404) Not Found
> > 
> > That's quite strange, some apache problem?
> > 
> > | Looking into http://www.debian.org/events/2001/
> > |   http://www.debian.org/events/2001/index.fr.html : Error = (404) Not Found
> > 
> > Problem on www.debian.org.
> > 
> I suspect both of these will not show up on the next run. When will that be?
> Soon, I hope (have to make a few changes before the next run).


Regards,

	Joey

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