This week’s perl drama encompasses our link checking again. So, after running Xenu
, there seem to be lots of different urls on our site that are pure javascript pop-ups. Our production folks have been able to revise a lot of those pages, but there are close to 100,000 pages on our site – far too many for a two person procuction team! So, I’m adapting some cgi’s I wrote earlier to go through the site and re-write the pages with all of these types of links. Basically, inserting the url after the href, adding the onClick handler, and adding a ‘return false;’ does the trcik and allows for any-old-link-checker to see them. But, I’m on windows, and the file-writing/directory-creating utilities are really flaky for some reason. I’m getting permission denied errors, files can’t seem to be saved in any created directories, etc., etc. I’m sure this too shall pass, but it’s a real headache.
