I am currently using Netmechanic to check for broken links on my site. Unfortunately it does not find most of the "file not found" pages so I end up checking manually, which takes quite some time, especially since my phone line only supports 28kbs. So I thought I'd create a template with: link, date posted, and then do a php filemtime on the url. This would create a page I could review, if my MT date is significantly different from the date modified of the page I would check the url. But I can't get filemtime to work on remote links. Another thing would be to somehow generate a report with the MT title and the title and an excerpt from the linked page--that way if any say "file not found" I would see it in the report. I don't know if php can nab text from a remote link. Can a cgi script or an applescript do something like this?
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This isn't directly related to MT so I hope it's okay to ask I am currently using Netmechanic to check for broken links on my site. Unfortunately it does not find most of the "file not found" pages so I end up checking manually, which takes quite some time, especially since my phone line only supports 28kbs. So I thought I'd create a template with: link, date posted, and then do a php filemtime on the url. This would create a page I could review, if my MT date is significantly different from the date modified of the page I would check the url. But I can't get filemtime to work on remote links. Another thing would be to somehow generate a report with the MT title and the title and an excerpt from the linked page--that way if any say "file not found" I would see it in the report. I don't know if php can nab text from a remote link. Can a cgi script or an applescript do something like this?
I am currently using Netmechanic to check for broken links on my site. Unfortunately it does not find most of the "file not found" pages so I end up checking manually, which takes quite some time, especially since my phone line only supports 28kbs. So I thought I'd create a template with: link, date posted, and then do a php filemtime on the url. This would create a page I could review, if my MT date is significantly different from the date modified of the page I would check the url. But I can't get filemtime to work on remote links. Another thing would be to somehow generate a report with the MT title and the title and an excerpt from the linked page--that way if any say "file not found" I would see it in the report. I don't know if php can nab text from a remote link. Can a cgi script or an applescript do something like this?
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