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BLT - 0.2

Web page link checker

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All Time:	(3.4)
Version 0.2:	(4.0)
Selected Version:	0.2
Release Date:	2002-12-01
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 0.2):	2,706
Downloads (all versions):	6,568

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Product Description:

BLT (Braxton's Link Tester) is a freeware link checking program for Mac OS X. It has a very small footprint (under 250KB), but because of its extremely powerful foundation it really packs a punch. It can check sites both online and offline, create HTML and CSV reports, and can even be set up to check sites on a regular basis.

BLT checks all objects on web pages, not just images and clickable links. In addition, you get many options to help customize your link checking experience.

If you use BLT regularly, please consider donating to support the project. Send any bugs or feature requests to braxton@braxtech.com

What's new in this version:

Added "Export..." function to create reports:
- Export as HTML (see example).
- Export as CSV (Comma Separated Values).
Added Timed Out URL support.
Added Forbidden URL support.
Added Line Numbers support.
Broadened the definition of an 'recursable script'.
Completely redesigned the About Window.
Will match links/objects in files much more accurately now.
Fixed Base HREF support (for real this time!).
Fixed bug where leaving off the the trailing / on certain starting locations would cause the link to fail.
Fixed some occurrences where error sheets would look funky until you clicked on them (threading issue).
Fixed the bug in the "Browse..." sheet.
Renamed some of the column titles to make them more generic.
The progress bar is now invisible when BLT isn't working.
Columns are now rearrangeable and sortable.
"BLT Help" under the Help menu now opens the manual.
Fixed some occurrences where double clicking the items in the results table wouldn't work correctly.
Added contextual menus to the results table:
- Copy Item To Clipboard
- Reveal In Finder/Open In Browser/Open In Email Program
Under the hood changes:
- LOTS of code cleaning and rewriting.
- Added Report Generator Script (reportgenerator.pl).
- Standardized all outgoing information from the link checker script.
- The Link Checker Script uses a lot more associative arrays to speed things up.
- Much better URL Result Cache
- Renamed all the image files to better reflect their content.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
perl (installed by OS X)
curl (installed by OS X)

Feedback Summary:

Version 0.2:
Overall Rating:	(4.0)	Features:	(2.0)	Support:	(4.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(3.0)

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No Longer Supported? - Buggy - Version: 1.0.3, 6/11/2008 04:09PM PST

Paul.Hunt

You must check the links for an entire site. If you try to start in a sub-directory, the application crashes.
You cannot use the stop button because the application crashes.
The developer does not respond to email or trouble tickets.

Room for improvement - Version: 0.2, 12/23/2003 07:49AM PST

dcrombie

I'm quite impressed by the logo and simple interface but some of the functionality needs a bit of work - requesting (and respecting) robots.txt would be a good place to start, and caching pages already requested to avoid over-aggressive indexing. Also an option to not index CSS and Image files. If you can do all that then I'll definately make a donation (-;

Room for improvement - Version: 0.2, 12/23/2003 07:45AM PST