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LinkScan Reference Manual

Section 19

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LinkScan QuickCheck

LinkScan QuickCheck serves two functions:

  1. It is invoked automatically via hyperlinks from some of the other LinkScan Reports to display a highly detailed report for a single document.

  2. It may be invoked directly from the main LinkScan Reports Menu and used to check (or recheck) an single document or link.

Each QuickCheck Report includes several items of information that are transparently integrated:

QuickCheck has a strong affinity for the LinkScan database. If the data are available in the database associated with the currently selected Project, QuickCheck will seek to ascertain the status of each link using the database and the status found during the last full scan. If this is not available, or the requested document lies outside the scope of the current Project, QuickCheck will perform a full link analysis on that document in real-time.

If QuickCheck has pulled the link status data from the database, the user may force a fresh, real-time scan of that document. This is useful when, for example, you want to recheck a single document after making changes to it. Simply use the Recheck Now option included on each Report.

You may also run LinkScan QuickCheck from the command line in exactly the same manner as the linkscan.cgi program as show below:

web:/usr/www/htdocs/linkscan> perl quick.cgi -help        

LinkScan/QuickCheck Version 9.0
Copyright 1997-2001 Electronic Software Publishing Corporation

USAGE: quick.cgi {-help} {-url URL} {-project name}
                 {-repfile file} {-outfile path} {-tty}
                 {-mailto address} {-format n} {-now} {-http}

-help            Displays this message
-url URL         Specify the URL to be scanned
-project name    Specify a Project. Equivalent to -site
-repfile file    Specify a filename with the reporting options
-outfile path    Specify an output filename
-tty             Output to terminal
-mailto address  Send report to email address
-format n        1=Full HTML; 2=HTML; 3=Plain; 4=text
-now             Perform real-time check
-http            Force HTTP Access

Detailed Help [Y/N]:

Example:

perl quick.cgi -project default -home http://www.example.com/index.html -tty

The above example will run QuickCheck against http://www.example.com/index.html, reading the options from linkscan.rep and displaying the results on the terminal.

LinkScan Reference Manual. Section 19. LinkScan QuickCheck
LinkScan Version 9.0
© Copyright 1997-2001 Electronic Software Publishing Corporation (Elsop)
LinkScan™ and Elsop™ are Trademarks of Electronic Software Publishing Corporation

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