Of course one could run a bot on the published site - but that seems to be a bit inefficient?
It seems to me that it would be best to run linkbots on the published site. There are so many factors involved in Zope publishing a page such as acquisition and different security roles, that the best test of a site is the published result in some kind of browser/bot. If the site has cookie-based authentication or uses the <dtml-tree> tag a great deal for critical stuff then I guess you may have problems with cookies unless you have a fairly smart linkbot. If load is a problem maybe you have to slow the bot down a bit - most of them have rules or settings to prevent them loading down a server with requests. Julian. _____________________________________ Julian Melville (jmelvill@scu.edu.au) http://multimedia.scu.edu.au/~jmelvill/ School of Multimedia & Information Technology Southern Cross University ASCILITE 2000 is at Southern Cross University! http://multimedia.scu.edu.au/ascilite2000/