link checking sw

Tried out various link checking sw for finding broken links quickly and easily.

http://www.dead-links.com/ was using HTTP HEAD , so was getting FORBIDDEN responses for most of our htm pages - issue with IIS not giving 200 response for anything other than .asp or .html or something like that....


http://validator.w3.org/checklink
had the same problem.

JCheckLinks - I couldn't get it to work due to my lack of Java app installing experience.

Linklint - appeared too complex!

http://www.unixdaemon.net/delicious_checker.html - meant for Del.icio.us links specifically, and needs certain PERL modules....

Finally ended up using Xenu's Link Sleuth - relatively fast and uncluttered, on Windows (Sathya). Of course, radiosai.org has more broken links in PA and Journals which I have no intention to correct now, so have to choose preferences carefully...