Comments on: Page Links Checker v0.1

By: jeff salam

jeff salam — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:08:36 +0000

hi;

nice script ;
I’m new to this. can you advise how I can check only the links that i can specify on the page.

thanks
happy thanks giving
jeff

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:46:28 +0000

Do you have a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey that automatically converts text to links? “https://” isn’t a link over here

By: Hatem

Hatem — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:51:10 +0000

I’m getting a strange behaviour when I click in the “text” of your comment “https://.” is considered as URL ? (try it with firefox) I think its better to parse url in server side, easily done with preg_match, but dunno about JS…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:54:33 +0000

Good point. Since that could be a problem with a lot of those special transfer protocols, I added a check that the URL begins with http:// or https://. Thanks for the suggestion :-)

Since I am also worried about commands on the query string, I removed checking on any links with a query string.

I also added a 500 millisecond delay to displaying the "working link" icon so it wouldn't interfer with people clicking it.

Another way to do this would be to check a link only when a user clicks it and display a confirmation prompt if the link is invalid e.g. "Sorry, this link no longer appears to be active. Would you still like to go to it? OK/Cancel". That might be less intrusive for the user. For the time being, I've added that functionality only to the active script on this site. Try it out on this link

By: Hatem

Hatem — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:51:20 +0000

Cool script, by the way if you point to "Entries (RSS)" link in bottom page it won’t work. "feed" is not a standard protocol registered by browsers. Just and str_replace to fix it