[Zope] Link scanning, former: Fitting Zope into publishing process

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:33:17 -0800 (PST) 
John Eikenberry <jae@kavi.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ragnar Beer wrote:
>> I tried Linbot 1.0 and generally think it's great. The problem I
>> had with it was that it would ONLY check remote sites but not my
>> zope test machine http://localhost for whatever reason. Only the
>> root url was displayed in the report. I tried pylice which is
>> also written in python but it also refused to scan my
>> localhost. Then I tried to scan from an external machine - same
>> thing! The same content server as static pages from apache:
>> works. Could that be a zope issue?

> I too have had this problem. And it also happens with some of the
> other (perl based) link checkers. 

Try instead pointing it at the FQDN for your machine instead of
localhost.  Why?  Most likely because gethostbyname() doesn't
resolve for localhost.

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