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Verifying Links
ColdFusion Studio simplifies the job of maintaining sites by testing each link in a
selection and reporting any problems it finds. You can verify links to local HTML
files, graphics and other media files and other Web sites. By default, ColdFusion
Studio checks all links in a selection, but you can skip specific links. Tags in
comments are skipped.
If you have installed Linkbot 5.0 or greater, you can use it within ColdFusion Studio.
Select
Tools > Verify Links with Linkbot to check links in specific files, or select Tools
> Verify Project with Linkbot .
Note
You cannot use the link checker to verify links to secure pages (HTTPS), FTP links, or
mailto links. You also cannot perform link verification on large binary files such as
EXE, PDF, ZIP, and media file types. This would significantly slow down the
operation. Therefore, ColdFusion Studio installs a list of excluded file extensions in
the Windows Registry LinkVerifyExcludeExts key.
To set options for link verification, do any of the following:
•
To change the URL or local directory that ColdFusion Studio should use to
process the relative link, select a link in the list and click the Set Full URL
toolbutton.
Entries that you make in this dialog box are stored in the drop-down list for future
use. Setting the root URL does not modify the source document; it just tells
ColdFusion Studio how to test relative links.
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To enter a time value after which the link verifier moves to the next link in the list,
click the Set Timeout toolbutton.
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If the link is routed through a proxy server , click the Set Proxy toolbutton and
enter a server name and port number.