Broken Links in Websites

Constantly updating a website often involves removing the old version and building a new one from scratch. Changing the address of the website developed, can be very expensive and time consuming. Also, Linking one website to another can be frustrating, especially when it has dangling links that contain an old URL. Website developers have to make sure that their websites do not contain any broken links. Checking each link manually can take days especially if the website contains hundreds of links. This book describes links and URLs and how they work, it also explains how to develop a program to check links automatically in websites by reading their html files and checking the links they contain in minutes if not seconds. This book would be of benefit to university students and software developers interested in locating and dealing with broken links in websites.