How to identify 404 or re-directing url's post subission?

Posted April 7th, 2008 by desi

Everything is working great except when I noticed that some of already submitted url's by users in my drigg site were actually re-directing to another site or were broken.

Is there a way or module to identify and catch 404 and re-directing, broken url's?

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On April 7th, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

Please clarify the issue.
I ordered a crystal ball from Amazon, but it hasn't arrived yet--and there's no estimate time to be seen :-D

Please give a practical example of what is going on, and what could be causing it.

Bye,

Merc.

Hope you get your crystbal

On April 7th, 2008 desi said:

Hope you get your crystbal ball soon.

Well nothing is actually causing it but the actual links is either dead or re-directing to another site at a later date.

Example: One of the user had submitted www.xyz.com/mno.html which was actually a good link at the time of submission but after few days mno.html goes dead for some reason (maybe the server is down or page deleted).

I had tried to use the Link Checker Drupal module but it fails for some reason to identify re-directing url's. I was wondering if there is another way to identify such links and delete it for SEO. I'm sure it can be a great Feature in future Drupal releases.

Good luck for your crystal ball.

I mean future Drigg release.

On April 7th, 2008 desi said:

I mean future Drigg release.

Feature request

On April 7th, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

I can see a lot of problems with this.
How do you declare a link "dead"? How many times shall it be checked? WHat about redirections?

I know it's not good to point to dead links, but isn't this just the nature of the beast, when talking about news lites?

Merc.

P.S.
I called Amazon, they cannot predict when my crystal ball is arriving :-D