Link Check

Test Objectives

Report missing links from ldas web pages.

APIs affected by this test

No APIs are involved.

Setup

/ldcg/bin/curl is the version of curl that works with the script.


        > which curl
        /ldcg/bin/curl
        > curl -V
        curl 7.12.0 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9) libcurl/7.12.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7d ipv6 zlib/1.1.4
        Protocols: ftp gopher telnet dict ldap http file https ftps 
        Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

If you have a default linux version e.g.


        >  curl -V
        curl 7.9.8 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl 7.9.8 (OpenSSL 0.9.7a) (ipv6 enabled)
        > which curl
        /usr/bin/curl
        > ls /ldcg/bin/curl
        ls: /ldcg/bin/curl: No such file or directory

you should run the test on a sun machine with /ldcg/bin/curl.

Install the following tests script in a directory on your local machine
- crawlink.tcl - driver script to visit all links under a specified top url


        Test Execution

		cd <your scripts directory>

		
        Usage: crawlink.tcl <url> >& crawlink.log & 

        
e.g.

            crawlink.tcl http://www.ldas-dev.ligo.caltech.edu >& crawlink.log &
        
		
		
Test Validation:
        The script output lists the bad links within a url 
        
        e.g. 


        ROOT: http://www.ldas-dev.ligo.caltech.edu/doc/standalone.html
            BAD 1 404 http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/lal/lal-3.0.tar.gz
            BAD 1 404 http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/lal/lalwrapper-3.0.tar.gz
        ...