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Subject: All the broken freestuff ---

_dodger opened this issue on Jan 19, 2003 · 8 posts
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_dodger ( ) posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 8:25 AM · edited Tue, 04 February 2025 at 4:54 PM

If I compile a list of the broken free stuff links, can something be done about it?

gebe ( ) posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 9:37 AM

If you could tell us (author, title) of the broken stuff, we could have a loolk:-)

_dodger ( ) posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 10:11 AM

Easy enough to find the worst offenders -- list Free Stuff by most downloaded. I get the impression that people keep checking back on things that have been dead since 2000 trying to download them. I was going to download all the RFS pages and run them through a script to send a status request (no actual bandwidth slurping, just a check for 200-OK or not) for all of them, then spit that out into a list.

gebe ( ) posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 10:17 AM

I have a look nearly every day for dead links, but of course, I cannot check them all (I mean from 2000). I believe there must be lots. I will see this with the administrators. Thanks:-)

_dodger ( ) posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 12:07 PM

no worries

Spike ( ) posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 7:17 PM

It's hard to know if the items are just off line for a few days or forever...

You can't call it work if you love it... Zen Tambour
 

_dodger ( ) posted Mon, 20 January 2003 at 1:57 AM

An idea then: add a column to the FreeStuff database called active char(0). Run a script to check the statuses of every one nightly and if it doesn't return 200-OK, mark it NULL, and if it is okay leave it ''. (In MySQL there is no Boolean datatype, but a char(0) works just as well. The value is either NULL or '' (nothing but defined as nothing). This works as a boolean. Modify the output to only list ones WHERE active IS NOT NULL

Rismyth ( ) posted Mon, 20 January 2003 at 9:07 AM

The Gallery belonging to Falcon seems to have over half of his stuff missing.

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