Broken links reporting - why so difficult?

Received update reminder for Flash. Followed link https://get3.adobe.com/flashplayer/update/activex/ but it says page not available. Why would a company like Adobe have such faulty systems?

I used the link via another site and that worked . I had tried the link on the Adobe site several times.
thanks
Regards
Peter
Peter Williams

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I found a website that didn't work with Firefox 3.6.15. I selected the Report broken website menu item. Typed in the problem description and clicked the Submit button. The popup broken link report continues to show 'sending report' with an in progress bar for the last 10 minutes! Apparently report sw cannot contact Firefox server to send report.

Mozilla Website Evangelism has ended, the '''Report Broken Website...''' function is gone in 4.0 & later versions, and the server was shutdown in December - which is the problem you are experiencing. You can use the Submit Feedback... feature in the Help menu in 4.0 & later, but if the report is about a website that doesn't work properly in Firefox, Mozilla isn't going to contact the website and encourage them to fix their issues.

Broken Link Report with Variables

In my broken links report, I have many links that contain dynamic variables that will be realized at execution time and are not static links.
I have included some code from our page(s) below.
This process works extremely well for our web pages, but I would like to clear up the broken link report.
Is there a way to keep the code as is and have them removed from the broken link report, or is there better way to do this?
Example:
<cfoutput query = “getDBcontent”>
<cfset FileName =“../projectweb/images/#getDBcontent.FileType#.gif”>
<cfset FileTitleAlt = “The title of this document is: #getDBcontent.FileTitle#”>
<img src=”#FileName#” alt=”#FileTitleAlt#”> #currentrow# <a href=”../projectweb/files/#getDBcontent.Table_FileName#”
                 target=“_blank”>#getDBcontent.Table_FileNameTitle#</a><br />
</cfoutput>
After Execution:
<img src=”pdf.gif” alt=”The title of this document is: Search Lists for Dummies”> 1
<a href=”../projectweb/files/Search_Lists_for_Dummies.pdf” target=“_blank”> Search Lists for Dummies </a><br />
<img src=”pdf.gif” alt=”The title of this document is: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP”> 2
<a href=”../projectweb/files/Adobe_Dreamweaver_CS5_with_PHP.pdf” target=“_blank”>
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP </a><br />
<img src=”doc.gif” alt=”The title of this document is: How to Build a House”> 3
<a href=”../projectweb/files/How_to_Build_a_House.doc” target=“_blank”> How to Build a House </a><br />
<img src=”docx.gif” alt=”The title of this document is: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book”> 4
<a href=”../projectweb/files/Adobe_Dreamweaver_CS5_Classroom_in_a_Book.docx” target=“_blank”>
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book </a>
The broken link report shows the following:
FILES                                                      Broken Links
/Books.cfm                                         ../projectweb/files/#getDBcontent.Table_FileName#
/Books.cfm                                         #top
/Books.cfm                                         #bottom
Thank you in advance...
Roger

Thanks for taking a look Murray. Here are some samples (The domain for our page is www.insurance.wa.gov)
social/index.shtml
http://www.facebook.com/WSOIC
social/index.shtml
http://twitter.com/WAinsuranceblog
social/index.shtml
http://access.wa.gov/washington/blogs.aspx
social/index.shtml
http://access.wa.gov/washington/facebook.aspx
social/index.shtml
http://access.wa.gov/washington/twitter.aspx
Our page to the left, the broken link to the right of course.

Broken link report broken?

Hi. I'm using Dreamweaver CS 5.5. I get the same results on Mac or Windows so I don't think this is OS specific.
When I run "Site>Check links sitewide" I end up with a report that shows around 11,000 broken links on different pages. I am running this report on our development server (we Put files to our live site from the development server) but I'm not sure how that could be a cause. We've got a number of links to external websites that show as broken but when I check them randomly, they are all fine and the outside websites are up and running. It is also showing many internal links to other pages of our site as broken but again, random checks show them all as ok.
Is there a secret I may be missing to run an accurate link report or is it just there for looks?
Thanks.

Thanks for taking a look Murray. Here are some samples (The domain for our page is www.insurance.wa.gov)
social/index.shtml
http://www.facebook.com/WSOIC
social/index.shtml
http://twitter.com/WAinsuranceblog
social/index.shtml
http://access.wa.gov/washington/blogs.aspx
social/index.shtml
http://access.wa.gov/washington/facebook.aspx
social/index.shtml
http://access.wa.gov/washington/twitter.aspx
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The links on page http://www.oracle.com/technology/docs/tech/windows/ole_db/index.html to the "Oracle10g Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide" are broken.

You'll find that doc here:
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Why doesn't the Quicktime site have an easy way to report broken links?

Perhaps Apple thinks this site is perfect?
The link to 'The heart is deceitful above all things' has been down for DAYS -- surely something the producers of that movie would not be happy about??
There's no simple way (that I can see) to report such a broken link - just for the heck of it I spent 20 minutes looking for a way to report this minor glitch, and there doesn't seem to be one (or I'm missing the obvious).
Maybe someone who can do something will read this!

Thanks very much for the link!
...but where is the "link to the link" on the Quicktime site.... if I didn't know where to look for this, how would I find out about it, or realize that this is the way to report a simple broken link?
Is this bad site design or am I just plain blind!?
I'm just frustrated that the site doesn't have a simple way to report this (I've seen similar broken links before on the Movie site, and they often persist for days). If you hadn't helped me out I don't think I would have figured out how to do this!

Link checker does not seem to see some broken links-why?

Hi,
I have a problem with the link checker, it does not seem to report some broken links. Here is the context in which it happens.
My site root folder contains (subset) :
index.php
Templates/child_userarea.dwt
user-area/downloads.html
(The file downloads.html is based on child_userarea.dwt.)
In the template, I have <a href="../../index.php" title="Home page">Home</a>.
In downloads.html, this link appears as <a href="file:///M|/Website/index.php" title="Home page">Home</a>.
According to this post http://forums.adobe.com/message/934203#934203 by Murray, this is because Dreamweaver (CS4 in my case) thinks that index.php is outside the site root folder. I understand it thinks so because indeed ../../index.php points to the folder parent of the root folder. What I don't get is why doesn't the link checker report that ../../index.php does not exist? (And I'm sure it doesn't, there is no file called index.php outside the root folder.)
Emilie

That's the thing, it is correct! I have checked many times. Here is what is says:
and M:\Website\CERC15\ does exist.
For the time being, I have corrected the paths in the template, so for that particular file, it is now ok. However, I have no idea whether other paths are wrong since I am not sure any longer whether they are spotted by the link checker. I searched for other instances of file:///M|/Website and there is none left.
I suspect this is just one more problem due to another problem non-identified so far (see e.g.http://forums.adobe.com/thread/506149?tstart=30). Since I renamed a big batch of files, I have had problems after problems: the templates disappearing (see that other post); I also lost all the files in 4 other folders (files for download linked to the pages through <a> tags); and Dreamweaver has become particularly slow (but this seems to have been fixed with erasing the cache and the personal preferences).
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Reporting broken links

Is there a quick and easy mechanism to report broken links? A documentation link form help.sap.com doesn't work:
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Hello Mark,
That website doesn't have any feedback mechanism I am aware of. Just a thought, but if you post this in the forum category most related to that topic, someone from Product Management in SAP might see it as they read the forums here and the documents posted on the help.sap.com portal are written by people in the Product Management org.
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David

PDF Open Parameters reported as broken links

I use the PDF Open Parameters in order to link to specific
pages/locations in PDF documents:
e.g. <a href="
http://www.site.com/pdffile.pdf#nameddest=signup">pdffile</a>
However these always get reported as broken link within
Dreamweaver (CS3) and as broken anchors when I run other link or
page quality scans against the site.
Has anyone else experienced this and if so is it normal
behaviour? If this is an agreed standard then I would have expected
it to be recognised as a valid link/anchor.

It's expected behavior in DW. Since you're referencing a full
URL, DW can't
see that when testing for broken links within a locally
defined site. Due to
Adobe's and MS unwillingness to communicate...you're stuck
with this
approach until the path issues get resolved.
Ryan
"garankuwa" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f7l12d$77f$[email protected]..
>I use the PDF Open Parameters in order to link to
specific pages/locations
>in
> PDF documents:
>
> e.g. <a
> href="
http://www.site.com/pdffile.pdf#nameddest=signup">pdffile</a>
>
> However these always get reported as broken link within
Dreamweaver (CS3)
> and
> as broken anchors when I run other link or page quality
scans against the
> site.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this and if so is it normal
behaviour? If this
> is
> an agreed standard then I would have expected it to be
recognised as a
> valid
> link/anchor.
>

SSRS 2008 R2 why Link Report Print format different from parent?

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I have created a link report based on Report A.
In Report A I have set the print format to "LANDSCAPE", but the link report always appear in Portrait, any work around on this?
If this is one of the SSRS bugs, is that anyway I can disable the print button in Report Server?
Thanks

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Orphaned files - broken links - URGENT

Hi everyone
I am currently going through and deleting 675 orphaned files
and files that are old although if they create a broken link after
deletion this will not show when I re run the link checker even
though I know they are. Does anyone know why this is? I can't keep
deleting things if it is going to create a broken link within the
site. Also, is there any way of finding out where an individual
document is located on the site if at all?
Second issue is that orphaned files that I have deleted in
both the local site and remote site are still coming up when I do
the link check. Why is this so and how can I get them removed from
the orphaned files list?
Please help
Merry

many of the people offering answers use the NNTP newsgroup
reader version.
the webforum has been flaky lately i think.
Here's my reply from a while ago-
after deleting files- recreate the site cache.
It's under the site menu on older versions, under
site-->advanced on newer.
dw's link checker checks html links, and links in "behaviors"
that it
understands.
it will not check links in most javascript.
What's an example of a broken link that dw didn't warn of
when deleting the
reported orphan? �url address to the page??
and here are links to a google archive of the newsgroup.
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.dreamweaver/search?group=macromedi
a.dreamweaver&q=Orphaned+files+-+broken+links+-+URGENT&qt_g=1&searchnow=Sear
ch+this+group
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.dreamweaver/browse_frm/thread/3b1c
2e1950cbb577/9ed3b0a716f876c5?lnk=gst&q=Orphaned+files+-+broken+links+-+URGE
NT&rnum=1#9ed3b0a716f876c5
> Hi Murray
>
> It's just that it says there are 9 posts regarding my
original question
> although when I open it up they don't show.
>
> Merry :)

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Below is the screenshot of SSRS.

Hi,
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