Why does Deva Web Link Checker report http://www.site.com/../page/index.html as broken?
Why does Deva Web Link Checker report a URL with a space in it?
The key is the "../" part. It means you have e.g. a top level page that links to a page in a directory above, which doesn't exist. It is true that Mozilla will not have any problems with such a page; but I am less tolerant.
You can configure a proxy in Deva Web Link Checker Properties Site Properties Tab.
Either because you do have a space in the URL, or because you have a carriage return / new line in it. Although Mozilla tolerates this, We do not.
There is no maximum. It is limited by the memory on your computer.
Yes ,You can do so without a local web server . Use the "Local File" button in the Deva Web Link Checker Properties dialog Checker Settings tab .
The results will not always be the same as a "remote" check:
Sometimes you'll get "error 3". It happens because the WININET.DLL is unable to handle directories, i.e. links that end with "/". You can avoid this by linking to the actual "main file", usually index.html or default.html. That your browser can handle local directories and display them nicely, is because he does additional work, which I do not.
Mixups of higher/lower case characters in links won't be found, since Windows does not make a difference. But UNIX does!
The main reason that you still need to make occasional "remote" checks is because you might have forgotten to upload your files to your WWW server.
A user of IE 4.0 reported that when not online, the software checks every "remote" URL like a local file. This is a problem of the newer version of the WININET.DLL; the version with IE 3.0 reports "no connection" or "no such host" instead, which is more logical.
One user said it worked fine after he copied a version of WININET.DLL from a Windows 95 system standing nearby, and put it into the directory where Deva xFTP was installed.
Some servers read the "User Agent", i.e. the name of the software that tries to access a website. Some websites are programmed only for Netscape and Internet Explorer, and refuse everything else. Some may even specifically refuse Deva Web Link Checker because of past misuse. Andi has a list of websites that deny access to Deva Web Link Checker. A user-configurable "User Agent" would be the solution, but this would make abuse possible.
If you have set your proxy correctly, try to connect with IE. If this doesn't work . If this still doesn't work and you use Windows NT 4.0, install the latest NT service packs (up to SP5).