Why does FrontPage 2003 Verify show some valid URLs as broken

[Bruce Bowman]

When I run FP2003 Verify on my web site, it shows quite a few external
links as being broken, when in fact they are not when I copy those URLS
into the browser.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems?
IS there any way to fix this problem, or is a a Frontpage feature!!

Thanks
Bruce

 

[Steve Easton]

That is really not a FrontPage issue. It's a matter of how a hosting company / web master has set
up their server.
When you verify hyperlinks in FrontPage, it sends a "Ping" request to the server for the URL it is
checking.
Some hosts / webmasters have servers set to *Not* respond to "Ping" requests because "Ping" requests
are used in Denial of service "DOS" attacks by hackers.

To see an example of this open a command window and type:
ping www.yahoo.com you will get four replies.
Then type: ping www.grc.com and you will get "request timed out" but if you click the link to
www.grc.com the website will open
because it's responding to an http request.

hth

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Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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[Tina Clarke]

When I run FP2003 Verify on my web site, it shows quite a few external
links as being broken, when in fact they are not when I copy those URLS
into the browser.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems?
IS there any way to fix this problem, or is a a Frontpage feature!!

Thanks
Bruce

If the url is a dynamic one ... for example has a ? in the url .. then
FrontPage won't validate it.. you can check yourself then remember those
that won't validate...

there is a third party free checker that will do that but I still prefer to
use the fp one as it will update several pages at once for me.

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

there is also

http://validator.w3.org/checklink

hth Tina

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