Chapter 10. Link-Verification Webbots
This webbot project solves a problem shared by all web developers—detecting broken links on web pages. Verifying links on a web page isn’t difficult to do, and the associated script is short. Figure 10-1 shows the simplicity of this webbot.
Creating the Link-Verification Webbot
For clarity, I’ll break down the creation of the link-verification webbot into manageable sections, which I’ll explain along the way. The code and libraries used in this chapter are available for download at this book’s website.
Initializing the Webbot and Downloading the Target
Before validating links on a web page, your webbot needs to load the required libraries and initialize a few key variables. In addition to LIB_http and LIB_parse ...
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