CHECKURL Manual

Change History

1. Version "Next Release"
   
   • You tell me, feedback please!
     Have you ever looked at a product and said "Wouldn't it be nice if ...", well get on your backside and send an email, make it so!
   • Note that if you require any of the changes mentioned here for the next release then email me and I will either send you a copy or speed up its release. Also if you disagree with a change then tell me why, I can then think about implementing a feature which will do what you want in a better manner (or in worst case senario say "oops" and reverse the change).

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   • Your idea here :-).

2. Version "02.054"
   
   • New "/IgnoreFor" switch.
   • Fixed minor reporting issue, needed to add 1 to "ignoring for" number of days.
   • Rebuilt to pick up fix for Windows XP (temp directory).

3. Version 01.307
   
   • New "IGNORE" command. This allows you to specify that a URL should not be rechecked until a particular date. This would normally only be done if it is failing and you might wish to recheck in a couple of weeks etc.

4. Version 01.293
   
   • Now supports 2.2 GA regina and not just up to 2.2 beta!

5. Version 01.247
   
   • Now display a nice summary of the different errors that occur after all URLs tested.

6. Version 01.242
   
   • The "/OKRESPONSES" error file information is now output for all errors and is output in a "user friendly" form allowing simple cut and paste into your config file if the "error" should be ignored.

7. Version 01.001
   
   • Incorrectly reporting number of timeouts in summary if a timeout retry was turned off.

8. Version 2k.263
   
   • Added more "moved" test text.
   • Moved to URL now extracted from refresh meta tag (up until now it was reported as "?").
   • Default "Date" format changed (old still available).

9. Version 2k.239
   
   • Added more "moved" test text.
   • Removed the "/ASKIFMOVEOK" switch, use "/OKRESPONSES" to take care of annoying return codes.
   • Modified format of data in the data file that "/OKRESPONSES" reads. You now specify one only return code and don't surround with '/' (slashes). If you need multiple return codes then create multiple lines. You can now make a move return code conditionally OK by specifying what you expect the destination of the move to be.

10. Version "2k.194"
    
    • Now look for "refresh" meta tag. If refresh time is less than or equal to 10 (seconds) then I assume a page move else funny stuff.
    • Added more "moved" test text.

11. Version 2K.148
    
    • Since windows can't at this stage test FTP urls I have decided to return "OK" for these.
    • Some people create pages that simply say things like "page has moved" so this program will not see server 301 or 302 server response codes. I now look for some known "common" text strings. If you see others let me know...
    • New "PageMoved" switch to allow you to define your own "moved" text to add to the standard ones.
    • New "CheckPoint" switch allows you to set how often (after how many urls) a checkpoint to the "memory file" is made. If you test 200 URLS you don't want to start from scratch if something "happens".
    • New "MaxPageLng" switch to allow you to define the max length of data you wish to read from any html page.
    • Noticed that some "stupid" sites tell you about a move to a directory without a terminating slash, now take care of these.
    • CR chars now added to servers response in debug output (if required).
    • Memory file is no longer backed up when existing one has same date, this prevents losing previous days backups when check performed a few times on same day!

12. Version 2K.134
    
    • First version made using Windows. Now has extension ".REX", OS/2 users will need to rename to ".CMD".
    • A recent release killed the "CHECKURLSINHTML" command!
    • Windows RxSock.DLL runtime now distributed with this program.
    • The "CHECKLISTEDURLS" command now handles Windows URL shortcuts (IE and Netscape).
    • If the program sees a number of errors in a row it will now retest to see if it is still "online".

13. Version 2K.098
    
    • First version to be named "CHECKURL.CMD" (used to be "PPWCURL.CMD") and was bundled up with PPWIZARD. All environment variables etc renamed to match new name.
    • Somehow "Ctrl+C" handler had been corrupted a few releases ago, this has been corrected.

14. Version 99.086
    
    • Last version known as "PPWCURL.CMD".
    • Updated PPWCURL.CMD so that on 301/302 type server responses where a relative "new location" is supplied then it is converted to an absolute address.
    • Noticed that some "stupid" sites tell you about a move to the same address (this is now treated as OK)!
    • New "/Exclude" switch allows you to specify files that do not contain URL lists.
    • New "/OkResponses" which allows you to specify one or more server return codes that you would like to treat as OK.
    • New "/HttpUserAgent" switch to allow you to simulate specific browsers if you wish.