1Webchecker 2---------- 3 4This is a simple web tree checker, useful to find bad links in a web 5tree. It currently checks links pointing within the same subweb for 6validity. The main program is "webchecker.py". See its doc string 7(or invoke it with the option "-?") for more defails. 8 9History: 10 11- Jan 1997. First release. The module robotparser.py was written by 12Skip Montanaro; the rest is original work by Guido van Rossum. 13 14- May 1999. Sam Bayer contributed a new version, wcnew.py, which 15supports checking internal links (#spam fragments in URLs) and some 16other options. 17 18- Nov 1999. Sam Bayer contributed patches to reintegrate wcnew.py 19into webchecker.py, and corresponding mods to wcgui.py and 20websucker.py. 21 22- Mar 2004. Chris Herborth contributed a patch to let webchecker.py 23handle XHTML's 'id' attribute. 24