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You can open a worksheet by selecting the New command from the File menu.
It is divided into two parts. In the left part you can see the individual settings of the current check.
The right part shows the process of checking links.
To start checking links, enter the address of the site into the Start URL field, set the necessary values
for other parameters and click the Start button. You can click the Pause button to pause the
process or the Stop button to stop it.
The Reports menu contains commands for creating and saving reports about the work of Fast Link Checker.
You can save the worksheet of the current window by selecting the Save worksheet command from the
File menu. The program saves the current state of the check in the current window at the current
moment. You can restore the worksheet with the Load worksheet command from the File menu.
Each worksheet is also saved automatically when you close the program, so you can pause the current
check and close the program. When you open it next time, the worksheet will be restored and you can
continue checking links by clicking the Start button.
Processing
This list contains links either already checked or being checked at the moment and the state of checking (whether the resource the link refers to is found and the description of the error if the resource is not found).
Site layout
Site layout represents the structure of the site being checked with its folders and files. Broken links are marked by the error sign in the icon. Hold mouse cursor over an item to view extended information for it.
Note: This feature is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Broken links
This list contains all broken links found on the site, the page where they are located, their position there and a possible cause why they do not work.
Start URL
The address of the site to check links on. It can consist of a protocol name, a domain name and a link
to the resource. For example, http://www.mysite.com/index.html. In this example, the program will check
all pages on mysite.com starting from index.html. Another example is http://www.mysite.com/subdir/.
In this example, the program will check all pages in the subdir directory of mysite.com.
Check hyperlinks
Select this option to check links to hypertext pages.
Check images
Select this option to check links to graphic objects.
Check other links (script, css, etc.)
Select this option to check links to scripts, style sheets and other objects.
Recheck bad links
This option allows you to automatically re-check links which are failed due to a system errors such as timeout,
error reading file, socket errors, etc., which appeared on your local system, not on web-server.
Display site name as
This name is to substitute instead of the actual site name. So the report will contain this site name.
For example, when checking http://www.mysite.com/index.html you can specify "myanothersite.com" in
"Display site name as" and all the links to mysite.com will be displayed as the links to myanothersite.com
like http://www.myanothersite.com/index.html.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Basic authentication (password is sent in clear text)
Use Basic authentication (password is sent in clear text).
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA)
Use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA).
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Digest authentication for Windows domain servers
Use Digest authentication for Windows domain servers.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
GSS-Negotiate authentication
Use GSS-Negotiate authentication.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
User name/Password
User name and password for the selected authentication method.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Ignore robots.txt file
Normally, Fast Link Checker does not check links on pages forbidden to be indexed by robots in the robots.txt file. Select this option to let the program check links on pages forbidden to be indexed by robots in the robots.txt file.
Check links only in the first URL
This option allows you to check links only on the page specified in the URL field. The program will not follow links it will find on this page, but will only check their availability.
Do not check external links
Normally, Fast Link Checker checks all links that lead from the current site to other external sites. You can change this behavior by selecting this option. The program will ignore links to other sites and check only links within the current site.
Ignore case when comparing links
Normally, Fast Link Checker considers all links to be case-sensitive. Select this option to make Fast Link Checker ignore the case of letters when comparing links.
Do not accept cookies from the scanned site
Do not accept cookies for the currently scanned site. More options for cookies can be found in the Cookies tab of the Settings window.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Do not ignore "www." prefix
When this option is selected Fast Link Checker does not ignore "www." prefix. For example, "site.com" and "www.site.com" will be considered as different sites.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Check files in parent directory
Normally, if you specify start URL like "http://www.mysite.com/subdir/", the links in directories below "subdir" will not be checked. With this option entire site will be checked not depending on the start directory.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Ignore relative links overflow
When this option is selected Fast Link Checker does not display errors for relative links which have incorrect directories.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Use GET method if HEAD failed
Use GET method if HEAD failed.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Restrict checking to directory level
If you check links on large sites, you can restrict the level of subdirectories to be checked.
For example, if you specify "3" in this field, the program will not check links on pages below
the third level from the checking folder. When checking links on www.mysite.com pages located
in the directory www.mysite.com/level_1/level_2/level_3/ will not be checked. This option allows
you to check links on large sites in parts, restricting the level of subfolders.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Do not check files below/above size
Skip all files which size is greater or less than the specified number of kilobytes.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Stop scan if found/processed/unique/broken links exceed number
Stop scan if number of the specified links exceeds the specified value.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Do not check slow links
Skip checking all links marked as slow. Normally slow links are checked like all other links but when this option is set all slow links will be skipped.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Check only the following files
Skip all files which do not meet the wildcards specified. Use semicolon (;) to separate entries. For example, if you specify "/files/*.html;/dir/*" then only the following files are checked: (a) all html files in the "files" directory and (b) all files in the "dir" directory and its subdirectories.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Skip the following files
Skip all files which meet the wildcards specified. Use semicolon (;) to separate entries. For example, if you specify "/files/*.html;/dir/*" then the following files are skipped: (a) all html files in the "files" directory and (b) all files in the "dir" directory and its subdirectories.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Ignore the following domains
Skip all links which contain one of the specified domain names. Use semicolon (;) to separate entries.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Ignore the following bookmarks
Skip all links which contain one of the specified bookmarks. Use semicolon (;) to separate entries.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Ignore links in <form> tag
Ignore links from <form> tags.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
Do not ignore extra spaces in URL
Do not ignore extra spaces in URLs.
Note: This option is not supported by Fast Link Checker Lite.
See also:
Reports
HTTP Error Codes and their descriptions
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