RE: Checker investigation [was: Re: Version 1.11]

["Pamster" <pam@pamster.com>]

> - As for the XOOM URL, do you get the 404 error page as well, or do
>   you get the actual HTML page?
I got a 404 page, too.
> 
> - As for the other four pages, does the checker grab the actual HTML
>   pages with the fragments, or does it grab anything else (like other
>   404 pages...)?
> http://www.angelfire.com/ak/harleyangel/Rings.html
> Passed
Still fails for me - grabs the page with the fragment.
> 
> http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/angelicheart/
> Passed
Still fails for me - grabs the page with the fragment.
> http://www.angelfire.com/ma2/starlightswmwebrings/index.html
> Passed
Also fails - same results.
Why would sites pass for you and fail for me?
Pam
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ringlinklist@1-host.com
> [mailto:owner-ringlinklist@1-host.com]On Behalf Of Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:56 AM
> To: ringlinklist@gunnar.cc
> Subject: [ringlinklist] Checker investigation [was: Re: Version 1.11]
> 
> 
> 
> Pamster wrote:
> > 
> > In a ring of 225 sites, I think I got about 10-15 of those...
> > While that's a small percentage, in a really large ring it could be
> > a significant number.
> 
> Pam,
> 
> I have investigated the URL you posted last Sunday as well as a few more
> URLs I got privately. The problem you reported was that the checker
> reports link failures though the fragments seem to be ok. To be able to
> investigate the pages, I copied the checker details to new html pages
> which I uploaded on my own site. I had to change the link URLs to fit
> the location of my test copy of Ringlink, but otherwise the pages are
> unchanged.
> 
> These are the results of my investigation:
> 
> http://www.angelfire.com/ak/harleyangel/Rings.html
> Passed
> 
> http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/angelicheart/
> Passed
> 
> http://members.nbci.com/_XOOM/MCWebDesignz/page8.html
> This URL loaded a frames file in my browser, while the checker reported
> 200 OK and grabbed a 404 Error page... I tried to use the URL
> http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/mcwebdesignz/page8.html instead, but it
> didn't change the checker behaviour. It seems like the checker can't be
> used to check fragments on pages hosted at XOOM, at least not for the
> time being.
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/5724/Webrings2.html
> The list and previous links failed, which they should (misspellings:
> cgi-gin and siteis).
> The next link failed too, and the reason is that the link doesn't
> include "www." before the domain name. In this case the link still
> works, but missing "www."s are not tolerated by all servers, so I'm not
> ready to make the checker let such links pass.
> 
> http://www.angelfire.com/ma2/starlightswmwebrings/index.html
> Passed
> 
> If you want to study my test ring for this investigation, this is the
> URL: http://www.bahnhof.se/~hjalmar/cgi-bin/ringlink/ringadmin.pl
> (ringid: SGMring, password: test)
> 
> To summarize: The checker wasn't able to grab the actual HTML page
> hosted at XOOM, but for the other four pages the reported results were
> correct. I wasn't able to repeat any occurrence where the checker
> grabbed the actual HTML page but still didn't report correct results.
> 
> So, just to be sure, I'd appreciate your clarifications:
> 
> - As for the XOOM URL, do you get the 404 error page as well, or do
>   you get the actual HTML page?
> 
> - As for the other four pages, does the checker grab the actual HTML
>   pages with the fragments, or does it grab anything else (like other
>   404 pages...)?
> 
> / Gunnar