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in thread Detect Broken links

Hi,
Using HTML::SimpleLinkExtor, can i get the http status of the url hit ?

Thanks,
Vishy

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Re^3: Detect Broken links
by CountZero (Bishop) on Oct 15, 2009 at 18:03 UTC
    HTML::SimpleLinkExtor only gives you a list of the links in the webpage. To check if you can connect with the resource pointed to by the link I used the head function from LWP::Simple. In scalar context it returns TRUE if successful.

    If you need more detailed information you have to use LWP::UserAgent:

    use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::SimpleLinkExtor;

my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $extor = HTML::SimpleLinkExtor->new('http://www.perlmonks.org/');

$extor->parse_url('http://www.perlmonks.org');

print "Checking $_: ", $agent->head($_)->code, "\n" for $extor->links

    [download]
    This will give you the HTTP status code. If you replace ->code by ->message, you get a human readable message instead of the three digit code.

    CountZero

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