[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #2517: Automatically check docs.buildbot.net/buildbot.net for broken links and invalid HTML/CSS

[Buildbot trac]

#2517: Automatically check docs.buildbot.net/buildbot.net for broken links and
invalid HTML/CSS
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Reporter:  rutsky       |      Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
Priority:  major        |  Milestone:  undecided
 Version:  0.8.7p1      |   Keywords:  web
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 It would be nice to setup automated tests that will check Buildbot web
 sites for links integrity and validity of HTML/CSS.

 Currently start page of [http://docs.buildbot.net/] has
 [http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.buildbot.net%2F&hide_type=all&depth=&check=Check#results1
 broken link and unnecessary redirects] according to
 [http://validator.w3.org/checklink W3C Link Checker].
 [http://validator.w3.org/ W3C Markup Validation Service] reports errors
 too on [http://docs.buildbot.net/].

 I didn't found open source link checkers that can do offline checking (to
 check HTML files on disk), but since at least http://docs.buildbot.net/
 has only relative links (without mentioning docs.buildbot.net hostname),
 it should be possible to start web server locally on Buildbot slave, serve
 HTML files on it and check them using online link checkers, such as W3C
 Link Checker (which can be installed and run locally, no internet
 connection required). I think other HTML and CSS W3C checker can be run in
 same way too.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2517>
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