chklinks change log 2007-12-05 version 3.09 MS-Windows fix. 1. chklinks: Fixed the "from" address of the user agent to use getlogin() and then getpwuid(), in order to work on systems that only have getlogin() but not getpwuid(), like MS-Windows. 2007-12-05 version 3.08 Documentation fixes. 1. README.zh-*, chklinks.zh-*.html: Fixed the description "是用 Perl 寫的單執行緒連結檢查程式" to "是單執行緒的 Perl 連結 檢查程式", according to the existing short description in README.zh-tw. I was out of my mind to miss this and translate it again. 2. chklinks.zh-tw.html, chklinks.zh-cn.html: Removed the old excess LWP/UTF-8 paragraph from the Notes section. 3. chklinks.en.html: Fixed "for a LWP::Protocol patch" to "for an LWP::Protocol patch". 4. README.en: Fixed "LWP::RobotUA(3)" to "LWP::RobotUA". 5. README*: Updated the LWP/UTF-8 information. 6. chklinks.*.html: Fixed the support section, replacing all instances of "arclog" to "chklinks". It is terrible that I just copied and pasted without reviewing. 2007-12-05 version 3.07 1. chklinks.*.html: Refer to NEWS instead of Changes for release notes. 2. README*, chklinks.*.html: Fixed the description "is a Perl link checker" to "is a non-threaded Perl link checker". 3. chklinks, README, Build.PL, Makefile.PL: Fixed the short description "perl link checker" to "Perl link checker". 2007-12-04 1. Makefile.PL: Fixed to prevent importing symbols when checking optional prerequisites. 2007-12-03 1. Makefile.PL, Build.PL: Added comment on the short description of this file to the beginning of the file. 2. Makefile.PL, Build.PL: Added "use warnings;". 2007-12-01 1. chklinks, Makefile.PL: Use "use 5.006" instead of "use 5.6.0", for compatibility with older Perl, and get ride of the warning of Perl 5.10. 2007-11-27 1. chklinks.zh-tw.html, chklinks.zh-cn.html: Tag the languages. 2007-11-26 1. License updated to GPLv3. 2. chklinks.*.html: Added version number to the title. 3. chklinks.zh-cn.html: Fixed the quotation style. 4. fdl.txt: Updated (FSF address). 5. MSWin32 and MS-Win32 is now written as MS-Windows in the documentation. 6. Build.PL: Added "recommends" and "build_requires". 2007-11-25 1. chklinks.en.html, INSTALL: Fixed the typo "archieve" as "archive". 2007-11-22 1. chklinks: Fixed $SIG{__WARN__} to $SIG{"__WARN__"} in the parse_args() subroutine. 2. chklinks: Removed the Chinese GPL copyright message. There should only be one version of the copyright message, and should not be any Chinese comment. 2007-06-08 version 3.06 Test suite updates 1. t/01-basic.t: Added test 21 to check if we have exhausted all the results, and remove the found URL after test 15-20, in order to catch errors in the test suites. 2007-06-07 1. chklinks.en.html, chklinks.zh-tw.html, chklinks.zh-cn.html: Added missing ... around WWW::RobotRules in the Notes chapter. 2. INSTALL: Filled in the missing text in the System Requirements chapter. 2. chklinks.zh-cn.html: Added blank line in the News chapter. 2007-06-07 version 3.05 1. chklinks: Do not set $parser->utf8_mode(1) in get_links() when Perl version is earlier than 5.8 where UTF-8 mode is not available. 2. INSTALL, INSTALL.zh-tw, INSTALL.zh-cn: Added instruction on installation with Module::Build. 3. INSTALL.zh-tw, INSTALL.zh-cn: Fixed several typos. 4. chklinks.en.html: Added instruction on installation with Module::Build. 5. chklinks.zh-tw.html, chklinks.zh-cn.html: Added illustration instruction that was missing previously. 6. t/htdocs/dir01/test01.html: Added http://www.domain.invalid/ and ftp://ftp.domain.invalid/. 7. t/01-basic.t: Added test on http://www.domain.invalid/ and ftp://ftp.domain.invalid/. 8. t/htdocs/dir01/start.html: Changed to UTF-8, and added an UTF-8 Chinese paragraph in order to test UTF-8 mode. 2007-06-06 version 3.04 Documentation fixes. 1. Changes: Added detailed change log entries about the new Notes chapter of the POD document. 2. chklinks.en.html: Fixed an unencoded

in the HTML. 3. chklinks.zh-tw.html: Removed the extra white space in the front of the news text. 4. chklinks.en.html, chklinks.zh-tw.html, chklinks.zh-cn.html: Added Module::Build support to 3.03 news text. 2007-06-06 version 3.03 1. chklinks: Added "$parser->utf8_mode(1);" in get_links(), to fix the HTML::Parser raw UTF-8 warning when extracting links from UTF-8 HTML content with HTML::Parser version >= 3.40. Thanks to nsnake for reporting this problem. 2. Build.PL: Added, to support building with Module::Build. 3. chklinks: Added a new chapter "Notes" in the POD document. Moved the illustration on Crawl-delay: from the Bugs chapter to the Notes chapter of the POD document. 4. chklinks: Added illustration of CPAN RT Bug#20274 on LWP::Protocol with HTML::Parser 3.40+ to the Notes chapter of the POD document. 2006-07-20 1. chklinks: Replaced getlogin() with getpwuid(). getlogin() many not always be available, for example, when running from crontab. 2006-06-08 1. chklinks: Revised the code with my own coding standard. 2. Changes: ChangeLog renamed to Changes, in order to follow Perl's convention. 2006-06-01 version 3.02 1. SIGNATURE: Fixed. Added the missing META.yml. 2. Fixes in HTML documents. 2006-05-31 version 3.01 1. HTML documents were missing in version 3.00. I have put them back. I have also made a lot of changes, including Web Accessibility updates. 2. chklinks: Updated $UASTR to use $LWP::VERSION when LWP::RobotUA->_agent() is not available. LWP::RobotUA->_agent() is only available after libwww-perl version 5.53_91. (It's 2001-04-20, though.) 3. chklinks: Use File::Spec instead of File::Spec::Functions. File::Spec is more compatible in older versions. 4. Several translated Chinese documents are added. 2006-05-30 1. ChangeLog: Added the forgotten version number. 2. Makefile.PL: Added the missing prerequisites LWP::RobotUA, HTTP::Cookies and HTTP::Request. Removed Net::HTTP that is not used anymore. 3. chklinks: Removed the prerequisite Net::HTTP. It is not used anymore. 2006-05-30 version 3.00 1. Documentation fixes. 2006-05-29 1. Fixed the usage in usage help from chklinks.pl to chklinks. Fixed the help text from "check for" to "check against". 2. Change the name fetch_doc_redir() to fetch_redir() and fetch_doc_noredir() to fetch_noredir(). 3. t/00-signature.t and 99-pod.t: added. 4. t/htdocs: a simple test suite is created. t/01-basic.t is rewritten to use that test suite. 2006-05-28 1. Use warn() instead of print STDERR in warnings. 2. Added %ALLOWED_SCHEMES, with 5 protocols supported: http, https, ftp, file and gopher, which are supported protocols common to LWP and URI. 3. parse_args() and proc_link_val(): Modified to respect %ALLOWED_SCHEMES instead of filtering out everything but HTTP. 4. check_links(): Fixed the comment from "We will never parse the remote documents" to "We are not parsing remote documents". 5. Removed unnecessary scalar() in parse_args() and check_links(). 6. parse_args(): Updated the warning, change "Skipping scheme-less URI" to "Skipping URI without a scheme", change "Skipping hostless URI" to "Skipping URI without a host". 7. Use LWP::RobotUA to make request instead of making HTTP request myself. Added fetch_doc_noredir(), fetch_doc_redir(), get_ua() and get_target() to replace fetch_http(), fetch_http_redir(), new_http() and re_http(). 8. Changed User-Agent text from chklinks/version to chklinks-robot/version. 9. Use HTTP::Cookies to save and use the cookies. As $COOKIE_JAR as the common cookie jar for all the UA objects. 10. Added noreq_key() and %NOREQ_HOSTS to prevent bothering servers that are not available and returning HTTP 503. 11. Support file:// scheme gracefully. Added rep_uri() to report the file:// URI gracefully. Currently tested on Linux and MSWin32. More tests required. 12. Moved chklinks from bin directory to the source root. 2006-05-27 1. Add the prototype declaration. 2. Use HTML::LinkExtor to parse and extract the links in an HTML page, instead of parsing it myself. 2003-05-26 version 2.02 1. The default changed from onelevel to recursive. This is more desirable in most cases. 2. Documentation fixes. 3. The chklinks website is done. 4. 01-basic.t: File::Spec is used instead of File::Spec::Functions, in order to work with perl 5.005. 5. PGP key added. 6. HTML documents added. 7. Chinese GPL (both simplified and traditional) are added. 8. FDL added. 2003-05-25 version 2.01 1. An installer, accessary files and a POD document are added. 2003-05-25 version 2.0.0 1. First public release uploaded onto SourceForge. Only the main script file is available. 2003-05-19 1. SourceForge project space approved. 2003-05-18 1. Requesting a SourceForge project space.