Using Watir to check for bad links

Question

I have an unordered list of links that I save off to the side, and I want to click each link and make sure it goes to a real page and doesnt 404, 500, etc.

The issue

Answer 1

My answer is similar idea with the Tin Man's.

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

mylinks = Browser.ul(:id, 'my_ul_id').links

mylinks.each do |link|
  u = URI.parse link.href
  status_code = Net::HTTP.start(u.host,u.port){|http| http.head(u.request_uri).code }
  # testing with rspec
  status_code.should == '200'
end

if you use Test::Unit for testing framework, you can test like the following, i think

  assert_equal '200',status_code

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another sample (including Chuck van der Linden's idea): check status code and log out URLs if the status is not good.

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

mylinks = Browser.ul(:id, 'my_ul_id').links

mylinks.each do |link|
  u = URI.parse link.href
  status_code = Net::HTTP.start(u.host,u.port){|http| http.head(u.request_uri).code }
  unless status_code == '200'
    File.open('error_log.txt','a+'){|file| file.puts "#{link.href} is #{status_code}" }
  end
end