Thus it was written in the epistle of Hans Hendriks,
> Hi,
>
> Are there any tools for verifying URLs that run on the HPe3000?
>
> Lets say you have a number of URLs stored in a database. Is there some way
> to dump them into a flat file and check each URL (possibly in batch).
>
> Currently, our best guess is to dump them into a fake webpage on a PC, open
> with FrontPage, and select "check hyperlinks", but we'd like a way to remove
> the manual steps.....

(from the fellow who tends to think Perl first :-),

I've gotten Net::FTP to work, and I expect that the other portions of the Net::
family would work very well, too.  You should be able to do a simple loop
through your lines, seeing if you get a response from each URL.  If you aren't
worried about whether they actually work, you should be able to do syntax
checking pretty easily as well.  Holler if you need more info.

Ted
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in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic---logic,
especially---is in its early stages in danger of evaporating into airy
nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun
from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure
mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.
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