Retrieving entire list of 404's

[mark_thomas]

We would like to retrieve a list of all broken links from the search appliance. Is there any way to do that? The Show Errors list is only a partial list, and fills up with other errors, when we are interested in 404 errors only.

[John]

If you click on the "Basic Settings" link for the profile you are interested in, and then replace basic.html with tsverrors.csv you can download an Excel compatible file with all the errors. You would then need to filter on the reason for the code 404.

You may need to use Excels "Convert Text to Columns" and specify TAB Delimited.

[mark_thomas]

Is there another, more direct way of retrieving the list? I'm trying to script the retrieval of the document, and it seems to be using some browser trickery to initiate the download, rather than just sending the document itself in the HTTP response.

[mark]

The trickery is a cookie. You have to be logged into the admin interface to download the errors.

[John]

It should send the document directly in the HTTP response, no trickery involved, although it does require the login cookie.

[mark_thomas]

I can get in to the Basic Settings page via the script, so I'm pretty sure it is handling cookies.

But the fetch of the tsverrors.csv file isn't working... maybe because there's no actual link to follow for it, so it's not sending the cookie... I'll look into it further and see if I can get it to work.

[mark_thomas]

Aha! The TSA is not sending a cookie over HTTP headers the normal way. It is embedding it in the page as a meta tag. That qualifies as browser trickery to me

[mark_thomas]

I got it working. I now have a script that will automatically extract the errors.

[michel.weber]

Are there any other undocumented features like this?