Link Valet

Link Valet is a WWW Link checker. When you enter the URL of an HTML page on the Web, it will fetch the page, and print a report on it. Link Valet will also spider your site. When a link references another HTML page at the same site and hierarchy as the URL, Link Valet will recursively follow the link and prepare a similar report on the page referenced.

Each page report includes a summary of all links from the page. These include a brief description of the link. Links are highlighted if there is any condition that you might wish to investigate:

• The link returned an error.
• The server redirected the link (the link works but should be updated).
• The contents of the link have been updated since you last obtained a Link Valet report on the site.
• The server indicated that the same URL might return different documents to different users (e.g. according to language preference).

In addition, it includes further options for detailed reports. For each page, you can:

• View the page itself
• View the page headers
• Validate the page (validator)
• Probe any scripts referenced by Forms in the page (cg-eye)

For further information, see:

• Key to Link Valet Reports
• HTTP Status Codes
• FAQ / Notes

Bugs

Link Valet spiders depth-first, so it will present your reports in an unexpected order with the actual URL you requested last.

Due to a minor bug in the Perl library used (LWP), links within an <APPLET> may be incorrectly inferred.

Browser Note

Link Valet benefits greatly from a Browser that enables stylesheets (CSS-1). The Link Valet stylesheet serves to highlight different link types and statuses, as outlined above. and in the Key to Link Valet Reports.