Following Links Dynamically Generated

[cholman]

I am have issues following links through my site using a URL to initiate the validation. I have a site using Struts so the pages are created using snippets and the links have no extensions. I use the Batch Tool and click follow links, clear the match text (or leave http), clear the extensions, and leave the depth at -1. The result is an odd collection of 24 pages scanned from the home page most only 2 links deep.

I am attaching the log from the run - well i tried - no txt or log extensions allowed not sure what you allow.

The site is http://www.omegagames.com/

[Albert Wiersch]

Hello,

I can look into this next week. Please email any files that might be helpful to me at support at htmlvalidator dot com. Thank you.

[Albert Wiersch]

Hello,

Thanks for the log you sent via email. I took a look and I think the problem is that the server/document is using links that start with:

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http://www.omegagames.com:80/

But in the Target Properties, Follow Links Tab, I bet you have this for the "Limit to" text:

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http://www.omegagames.com/

If you change it to the below, does it work as expected (remove the trailing slash)?

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http://www.omegagames.com

I hope this helps.

[cholman]

It does not seem to matter - if i use "http" or "http://www.omegagames.test" (without the "/") the report returns the same. I will send the reports generated.

[Albert Wiersch]

It does not seem to matter - if i use "http" or "http://www.omegagames.test" (without the "/") the report returns the same. I will send the reports generated.

Thanks. I see that many of the validations may be terminating from too many errors. If this is the case, then this may be affecting the number of links that are followed because link extraction is also stopped when the validation is terminated. Here is more information:
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/htmlval/v1 ... ooting.htm

You could try addressing some of these errors so they are fixed and/or increasing the number of errors generated before the validation is terminated. To increase the number of errors, please go to Options->Validator Engine Options and the Validator Engine->Message Output Page. You might want to try a value of 50 and see if it causes more links to be checked.

Another debugging tool is turning on verbose Batch Wizard progress messages in the Batch Wizard Options, When Running Page. This should generate additional messages about links that are followed.

[cholman]

Albert>> You were right - too many errors. I upped the number acceptable and the report ran. Thanks.

Cal

[Albert Wiersch]

Albert>> You were right - too many errors. I upped the number acceptable and the report ran. Thanks.

You're welcome. I'm glad we found the problem!