Fast 404 error checker for Link Lists

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thanks so much guys!
Mr. Stiff I can php..but confused what to do with curl? how it can help me out?
2Joneze...thanks for the link!

[Mr. Stiff]

Hi,

Curl is a good program for getting webpages, headers, etc. It's installed on most (good) hosting servers.

Here's how I use it:

- Column 'lastspider' on my gallery table
- Query table, getting URL's not spidered the last xxx days/hours/weeks/whatever
- Use curl extension to connect to URL.
- You can choose only to download headers, which is much faster than downloading the full page
- Check header respons (must be 200). If it's 404 -> page not found, 301 or 302 -> redirect)
- Update your table!

[venturi]

Originally Posted by Mr. Stiff

Hi,

Curl is a good program for getting webpages, headers, etc. It's installed on most (good) hosting servers.

Here's how I use it:

- Column 'lastspider' on my gallery table
- Query table, getting URL's not spidered the last xxx days/hours/weeks/whatever
- Use curl extension to connect to URL.
- You can choose only to download headers, which is much faster than downloading the full page
- Check header respons (must be 200). If it's 404 -> page not found, 301 or 302 -> redirect)
- Update your table!

You'll want to be a bit more discerning than just ensuring you get a "200 OK" response. If you'd like a script coded up let me know - however most of the better LL scripts already have checkers built into them.