Feature Request: Link Checker

[moenk]

What I'd find really kewl would be a Link-Check. Some plugin for the admin, that checks all links in the article and static pages which code they return, e.g. 200 or 404 or whatever.
My problem is that I refer to some other articles and they are gone with the time. It would help if I see this and can fix it manually and it would be perfect if the tool would remove all links not working properly.
A feature that I haven't seen before in any other blog, name it USP or whatever
Or is there another way to achieve something similar?

[konus]

I use XENU for this, but it is a programm witch has to be installed on a local PC. Of course there is no integration with s9y, witch would be nice, indeed.

Edit: Because XENU does also follow "nofollow"-links, it checks all Links of the carma-plugin, I have installed. This way a small blog with 29 Articles only lasts already about 15 Minutes.

Interesting is, that XENU reports all my static pages as "not found", the same as google does. If I open the link manually, everything seem to be ok. Any clue about that?

[judebert]

I understand that LiveHTTPHeaders extension for FireFox lets you see the headers. Perhaps you're getting a 404 along with the static page content. If so, we'd like to know why.

We've got a line in the karma plugin to exclude search engines that try to follow the karma links. It's a little odd that XENU can do it at all, since it requires a cookie and session to vote. It must be a very thorough program.

Anyway, if we can find some way to identify it -- like a user agent string -- we can prevent XENU from voting, too.

[konus]

I understand that LiveHTTPHeaders extension for FireFox lets you see the headers. Perhaps you're getting a 404 along with the static page content. If so, we'd like to know why.

Actually there is a error 404. I reported the problem in the Bugs-Section.

We've got a line in the karma plugin to exclude search engines that try to follow the karma links. It's a little odd that XENU can do it at all, since it requires a cookie and session to vote. It must be a very thorough program.

Anyway, if we can find some way to identify it -- like a user agent string -- we can prevent XENU from voting, too.

No, XENU does not vote, it only counts all the links, because it does not recognise the "nofollow" attribute.