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Bug 23716 - online link checker has unpublished limit of number of links checked on a page?
Summary: online link checker has unpublished limit of number of links checked on a page?
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LinkChecker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: documentation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
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Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2013-11-04 19:34 UTC by gepearson2002
Modified: 2013-11-04 19:34 UTC (History)
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Description gepearson2002 2013-11-04 19:34:52 UTC 
On a web page with 586 links (!), only 132 were checked.

Though I use link checker every few months to check this page, someone just pointed out to me that the page had a number of bad links.  The w3 checker missed most of them, but another free checker found them.  I determined the number checked by w3 by counting the "checking" entries in the scrolling results window.

So this is EITHER a bug in link checker OR a failure of the link checker web page to announce there is a limit on the number of checked links.

Unfortunately, this problem means that for YEARS I have had a web page with many bad links of which I was unaware.