On 04/26/12 18:13, Russ Allbery wrote: > Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <tiago@debian.org> writes: > >> I'm with pabs about integrating it to qa.d.o, sounds really helpful :) >> Btw, I've just checked a few links reported as error 500 and some seem >> to not present any problem. See: > >> http://sdl.perl.org/ >> http://www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/ >> http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kwalify/ >> http://www.pstoedit.net/ >> http://www.rc0.org.uk/tdl/ > > One thing to be aware of with link checkers is that there are some sites > that will return errors to bots but not to browsers. I don't know if that > applies to any of these, but I see that a lot when running link checks > against my own web sites. > > There are also just a lot of transient errors in the web, either due to > temporary network problems or due to temporary server problems. It would > probably be a good idea to cache results and only start warning if the > site was consistently unreachable over a longer period, like a week. > Yes, you are right - I already thought about this, and also came up with a threshold of a week, which sounds reasonable to me. I will improve my scripts and will pingback when ready. Regards, Simon -- Yay! I'm going to Debconf12!
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