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Reporting 301/302 redirects?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 11:21 am
by python79
We are currently using the free trial of Webinator and are interested in the ability to report upon 301/302 redirects as well as broken link errors. However, the trial walks that we have completed do not make any mention of URLs that contain redirects. Does Webinator have this functionality? We have used version 1 in the past and it was able to do so.
Thanks!
Reporting 301/302 redirects?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 11:50 am
by mark
Redirects aren't an error. They're just followed and the resulting page indexed. You can change max redirects to 0 to cause an error on redirect.
Reporting 301/302 redirects?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:41 pm
by python79
Thanks, I made that change and now it brings up "Too many redirections" when I crawl a site with redirects. Can it provide which type of redirect is being presented? This is what we are interested in.
Reporting 301/302 redirects?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:01 pm
by mark
It doesn't record/report the type of redirect. You can find out using the geturl tool that comes with Webinator.
geturl
http://thesite/thepage | more
The first line will tell you which type.
Or you could modify dowalk to record the "httpcode" in the error message.