[thelist] site auditing

[j.d. welch]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 01:18 PM, Rob Smith wrote:

> .. I think its fair to assume these pages are static.

no, not really.  they're a mix of Perl/HTML, using HTML::Mason;
nautrally i would only care about what's in the html sections.  just
<a> and <img> sections, really.

> Now for the deleting process. If you have Dreamweaver or Ultradev,
> after you
> assign sites, it will build a site cache or site map. If you start
> deleting
> stuff on your local copy, it will run through your copy (of the site)
> and
> let you know which files have links to the objects, or not.[...]

very clever, but that's really not practical; i don't work on the site
locally (or use dreamweaver any longer).  a command-line
script/binary/tool is the only real option; my apologies for not making
that clear!

i like the site map idea; perhaps that's what i need to do to build an
index of 'active' pages.  still not sure what to do about the image
references, though.  i guess i could grep each file and compile a list
of everything between src=" and " and hope for the best...

-jd

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