tr_httpcheck -- check if a particular web-pages exists
USAGE: tr_httpcheck [-heEs] [url1 url2...]
tr_httpcheck is a post-processor for tr_blck to allow for checking of absolute linke of the type http://....
-h this help
-e print only results if an error was found
-E Like -e but print a . for every checked url.
If no URL is given then tr_httpcheck reads output from \"tr_blck -a\" on stdin and processes it. Note: This program does only http type of protocol checks. It can e.g not check https or ftp.
check a single url: tr_httpcheck http://www.tuxgraphics.org/
check many URLs extracted with tr_blck from web pages: tr_blck -a *.html | tr_httpcheck -E
tr_httpcheck uses under the hood curl (make sure you have curl installed).
This software uses curl to fetch the URLs and you may use the http_proxy environment variable to pass a proxy to curl The format of the http_proxy variable looks like "http://www-proxy:8080/" and the no_proxy is a comma or space seperated list of servers or domains for which a direct connection should be made.
tr_httpcheck is part of the HTML::TagReader package and was written by Guido Socher
If you are interessted in a link checker to check links only via the web-server then this is not the right program for you. This program is just a simple addon to tr_blck. Other programs like e.g
http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/ or
http://www.linklint.org/
can be used if you want to check your web-pages only remotely via a web server.
To install HTML::TagReader, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm HTML::TagReader
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install HTML::TagReader
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.