Broken Links in Websites

Constantly updating a website often involves removing
the old version and building a new one from scratch.

Changing the address of the website developed, can
be very expensive and time consuming. Also, Linking
one website to another can be frustrating, especially
when it has dangling links that contain an old URL.

Website developers have to make sure that their
websites do not contain any broken links.
Checking each link manually can take days especially
if the website contains hundreds of links.

This book describes links and URLs and how they work,
it also explains how to develop a program to check
links automatically in websites by reading their html
files and checking the links they contain in minutes
if not seconds.

This book would be of benefit to university students
and software developers interested in locating and
dealing with broken links in websites.

Autorentext
Rafal Saad Ouda, BSc Physics, Baghdad University. MSc Computer Science and Software Technology,University of Wales Swansea. IT Programmer at Energy and Power Limited.

Klappentext
Constantly updating a website often involves removing the old version and building a new one from scratch. Changing the address of the website developed, can be very expensive and time consuming. Also, Linking one website to another can be frustrating, especially when it has dangling links that contain an old URL. Website developers have to make sure that their websites do not contain any broken links. Checking each link manually can take days especially if the website contains hundreds of links. This book describes links and URLs and how they work, it also explains how to develop a program to check links automatically in websites by reading their html files and checking the links they contain in minutes if not seconds. This book would be of benefit to university students and software developers interested in locating and dealing with broken links in websites.