chklinks change log
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 <samp>...</samp> 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 $parser->utf8_mode(1) in get_links() when
Perl version is earlier than 5.8 where UTF-8 mode is not
available.
2. INSTALL, INSTALL.zh-tw, INSTALL.zh-cn: Added instruction on
installation with Module::Build.
3. INSTALL.zh-tw, INSTALL.zh-cn: Fixed several typos.
4. chklinks.en.html: Added instruction on installation with
Module::Build.
5. chklinks.zh-tw.html, chklinks.zh-cn.html: Added illustration
instruction that was missing previously.
6. t/htdocs/dir01/test01.html: Added http://www.domain.invalid/
and ftp://ftp.domain.invalid/.
7. t/01-basic.t: Added test on http://www.domain.invalid/ and
ftp://ftp.domain.invalid/.
8. t/htdocs/dir01/start.html: Changed to UTF-8, and added an
UTF-8 Chinese paragraph in order to test UTF-8 mode.
2007-06-06 version 3.04
Documentation fixes.
1. Changes: Added detailed change log entries about the new Notes
chapter of the POD document.
2. chklinks.en.html: Fixed an unencoded <p> in the HTML.
3. chklinks.zh-tw.html: Removed the extra white space in the front
of the news text.
4. chklinks.en.html, chklinks.zh-tw.html, chklinks.zh-cn.html: Added
Module::Build support to 3.03 news text.
2007-06-06 version 3.03
1. chklinks: Added "$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 <loveme1314@gmail.com> 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.