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by jsb1022

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I'm looking for a utility that will analyze broken links (on an intranet), and fix them?

Thanks

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by hal 9000

Finding the Broken links is the easy bit but repairing them is impossible without outside interference meaning a Web Developer or the like.

While I don'[t know a single person who wouldn't like a piece of software to repair broken links my personal dream is...........

Col

by the scummy one

are you saying that THE HAL 9000 is incapable of fixing broken links??? That THE HAL 9000 thinks that it is an IMPOSSIBLE FEAT without Human Intervention?

Nah, say it aint so HAL!
:^0

by hal 9000

But here a Software Solution was asked for that can run on Conventional Computers not a Super Computer Hosing a AI like me. ;)

Need I remind you that no one is as Advanced as I am? :D

Col ]:)

[b]Happy Now?[/b]

by jsb1022

My site was created in Frontpage and you can locate broken hyperlinks and repair them. My issue was two fold - IIS and SQL related. I also needed a Sytstem DSN to create the ODBC conections to SQL databases.

by hal 9000

And just how does Flatpage Repair the broken Links?

Yes I know that you can manually enter new destinations for Hyperlinks but there is currently no software on the face of this planet or in the Universe designed on this planet that can look for the desired files whatever and repair the link.

Finding broken links is the easy bit repairing them is impossible for the current generation of Computers & Software. That is the point of things here.

Col

by the scummy one

is one thing. Repairing them is another entirely unless you want it to just delete them and tell you what it did in a log file.
How is this program supposed to determine where the new links are located?

by jaqui

grab the link object name [ something.avi for example ] and use the search tool in the os to look for the new location, then replace the location or copy the file to the linked location.

by the scummy one

everything was on 1 system.

However, many companies have multiple servers running
intranet sites, and links change on many of them. They
can be referencing from another server, from someones
system (that they setup for the link), an under the table
web-server, or even something on the Internet itself.
How would the tool find these?

by hal 9000

Now all we have to do is wait for AI Technology to develop past the stage of being a nice idea to a reality that works.

Col

by jaqui

I wasn't saying it would be easy to do, just that it could be done.

The utilities needed to enable doing it do xist, on linux / bsd / unix systems.

it's only those using windows and ms servers that are screwed over on a tool to do it. :D

by hal 9000

And to save time & effort for Skynet commit suicide as well. :D

If you can not bring yourself to do the work yourself then just don't look through the lift doors the next time you are above the 14 floor. I'll take care of the problem for you. :p

Col

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