User Guide

Verifying links 185
Verifying links
HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX 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 websites. By default,
HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX 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 later, you can use it within HomeSite+ for
Dreamweaver MX. Select Tools > Verify Links with Linkbot to check links in specific
files, or select
Tools > Verify Project with Linkbot.
Note
You cannot 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,
HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX 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 HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX
should use to process the relative link, select a link in the list and click Set Full
URL.
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
HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX how to test relative links.
• To enter a time value after which the link verifier moves to the next link in the list,
click Set Timeout.
• If the link is routed through a proxy server, click Set Proxy and enter a server
name and port number.
To verify links in the current document:
1 Select Tools > Verify Links to open the Links tab on the Results window.
The link list shows the following information for each link in the document:
Field Description
Source Current document name, preceded by an icon identifying the link as a
document or media file
Link Link as referenced in the document, including links set with the name
attribute in the Anchor tag
Full URL Path or IP address of the link
Status Status of the link, initially set to Untested