Directory outbound links

I am looking to find a way to check outbound links (submitted links), to make sure they still have a site up and running.Trying to keep a good running directory. Can anyone help ?

Thanks
Dice10

 

Just use curl to access the site and if you get a 200 OK response, the site is up.

 

OK, but what is curl software? I don't see anything in my admin panel.

 

Its to do with php i think, not a feature in your directory.

 

HE,

I am also Confuse about Above Que Please any one Help me....

 

curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other....... for more visit http://www.curl.com/products/demo/enterprise.php

 

Check out th php implementation:

http://us.php.net/curl

easy to implement, and here is an example:

http://www.linkstraffic.net/programming/php/seo/metascode.php

 

Let me reword this, looking to check broken links on a directory. Not internal links of the directory, but out boundlinks, links that people have submitted to the directory.

Thanks for your help!
Dice10

 

I use xenu link sleuth and it works pretty well. You download a client application that crawls your site and lists the status of all outbound links. Google for "xenu link sleuth" and you should be able to find a place to download it.