A broken or dead link that points to a webpage or server no longer available.
A broken or dead link that has suffered from link rot and directs to a webpage or server that is no longer available.
Questions tagged [broken-links]
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Links not going back a directory?
I have a website, let's call it example.com. Within this site, I have some FAQs but the person that built the site saved the FAQ pages under a directory on the site named "FAQs".
As an example an FAQ page would be located…
zik
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JavaScript/jQuery check broken links
I developed a small Javascript/jQuery program to access a collection of pdf files for internal use. And I wanted to have the information div of a pdf file highlighted if the file actually exist.
Is there a way to programmatically determine if a link…
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Check for broken links
I am trying to find all the broken links in the webpage using Java. Here is the code:
private static boolean isLive(String link){
HttpURLConnection urlconn = null;
int res = -1;
String msg = null;
try{
URL url = new…
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Firefox show broken images
In firefox a broken image appears as just a blank white space. On a white background there is no way to distinguish between no image and a broken image. This makes identifying broken images difficult to recognise and makes them go uncorrected.
How…
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Is Google's jquery CDN script link missing thew leading "https:" for a reason?
I haven't had to grab the link for awhile, but when jquery undefined errors started appearing, I noticed the url in the CDN script link was missing the leading "http:" or "https:". It obviously creates a broken link. I'm wondering if this is…
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URL Malformed exception in Selenium WebDriver using Java to find the broken links
I am using this code in Selenium script to find the broken links. So this is the code I have written but on running I am getting the malformed exception.
public void countNoOfLinksInHomePage(WebDriver fd) throws IOException{
List…
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How to handle links containing space between them in Python
I am trying to extract links from a webpage and then open them in my web browser. My Python program is able to successfully extract the links, but some links have spaces between them which cannot be open using request module.
For example…
python
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How to check if link is downloadable file in php?
I'm trying to make broken link checker with php.
I modified some php code i found online i'm not php programmer.
It let's in some unbroken link's but thats ok.
However I have problem with all presentation, zips and so on...
Basicly if it is…
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Why is github pages showing a different date for my post (w/ Jekyll)?
I publish my blog using github pages. Recently I noticed a permalink to one of the posts broke.
It used to be this:
http://strilanc.com/quantum/2014/03/07/Building-your-own-Quantum-Fourier-Transform.html
but now it's…
Craig Gidney
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Hyperlinks A HREF do not work
I'm a bit fooling around with a new website idea. But when i was testing it the A HREF does not work. It's not even showing a finger/hand pointer.
It's the text at the content area (the first white block under the header, but not the menu). The…
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Finding broken internal links in DotNetNuke
Are there any automated tools that can find broken INTERNAL links on a website -- specifically for a website based on the DNN framework. (DotNetNuke).
We have looked at Xenu , but can't to see get past the login page.
Any suggestions
Cheers.
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Where can I download `idndlpackage.EXE`?
Supporting Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) on Windows XP requires "Microsoft Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Mitigation APIs", whose file name is idndlpackage.EXE, but the download link is now unavailable on the Microsoft website. Where else…
Victor
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Which HTTP status codes should we consider for dead links
We are executing below curl call from PHP.
$url = $fullurl;
if (isset($url)) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data =…
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Broken links in Dreamweaver
I am changing the url structure of a website, to have it extensionless.
For example:
example[.]com/hello.html
would become:
example[.]com/hello
I have everything set up in my .htaccess file, and all works perfectly. However I want to drop the…
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Why wysiwyg plugin in magento gets me broken links?
When I try to insert an image to the wysiwyg editor in Magento it places the right variable of the image path in the media directory.
But, wysigyg doesn't find the right path/url, example:
I inserted:
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