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Auto-checking dead links in the manual (was: http: links in the manual)
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Ihor Radchenko |
Subject: |
Auto-checking dead links in the manual (was: http: links in the manual) |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:46:28 +0800 |
Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:
>> Max Nikulin to emacs-orgmode. [PATCH] org-manual.org: Update links to
>> MathJax docs. Sun, 3 Oct 2021 23:17:46 +0700.
>> https://list.orgmode.org/sjcl3b$gsr$1@ciao.gmane.io
>>
>> In the particular case of docs.mathjax.org I am unsure if mild
>> preference of http: over https: is not a mistake in the server
>> configuration. I do not mind "https:" there, any variant is better
>> than the old broken link.
>
> Maybe, instead of repairing the links manually, we could think of some
> code that would do this work periodically, and also check the health of
> the links, running a url request on each link and returning a list of
> broken links. I don't know if it is possible to do something like that
> in Elisp, as I don't have much experience with web and link issues. I
> think there are also external tools, like Selenium Web Driver, but my
> experience with it is very limited (I use Selenium from time to time
> when I want to take a screenshot of a web page).
This is a good idea.
Selenium is probably an overkill since we should better not link JS-only
websites from the manual anyway. What we can do instead is a make target
that will use something like wget.
Patches are welcome!
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- [PATCH] Documentation and NEWS for ` org-latex-language-alist', Juan Manuel Macías, 2022/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Documentation and NEWS for ` org-latex-language-alist', Ihor Radchenko, 2022/08/09
- Re: [PATCH] Documentation and NEWS for ` org-latex-language-alist', Juan Manuel Macías, 2022/08/16
- Re: [PATCH] Documentation and NEWS for ` org-latex-language-alist', Max Nikulin, 2022/08/18
- Re: [PATCH] Documentation and NEWS for ` org-latex-language-alist', Ihor Radchenko, 2022/08/20
- http: links in the manual, Max Nikulin, 2022/08/20
- Re: http: links in the manual, Juan Manuel Macías, 2022/08/21
- Auto-checking dead links in the manual (was: http: links in the manual),
Ihor Radchenko <=
- Re: Auto-checking dead links in the manual (was: http: links in the manual), Max Nikulin, 2022/08/22
- Re: Auto-checking dead links in the manual (was: http: links in the manual), Hendursaga, 2022/08/22
- Re: Auto-checking dead links in the manual (was: http: links in the manual), Ihor Radchenko, 2022/08/22
Re: [PATCH] Documentation and NEWS for ` org-latex-language-alist', Max Nikulin, 2022/08/09