Re: webapp dependencies

Hi,

On 4/14/05, Scovetta Labs <security@scovettalabs.com> wrote:
> Don,
>     I'm sure something exists (or could be written easily in Perl) to scan all
> content for local href links and find unreferenced content. 

I used to use checkbot  and any log analyzer to chek for dead links and errors:

http://degraaff.org/checkbot/

Anyway as Michael said there's a lot of tools like checkbot and It's
been a lot time since the last time I ran checkbot so maybe it's
better you choose the URL/Web link checker yourself from freshmeat
Link Checking category, rating, vitality and popularity could help you
to choose:

http://freshmeat.net/browse/244


Hope that helps,
Victor

 


> However, you might
> miss something, all you need is a script that says:
> <script>
>   var x = prompt('enter a resource name');
>   window.location.href='http://server/' + x;
> </script>
>
> ...and then the client has control over what resources to access. (Not to
> mention the countless other ways that resources wouldn't be known until 
> runtime).
>
> The other way to do it would be to go through your web server access logs and
> determine all of the files that don't appear in it. You'd probably want to go
> back quite a while.
>
> Hope that helps--
>
> -Mike
>
>
> Jarmon, Don R wrote:
> > I looking for a tool that will analysis content hosted on a web site,
> > identify all the webapp dependencies, and report on any non-essential
> > content.  The tool would run from the server.  Does such a tool exist?
>
> --
> Michael Scovetta
> Scovetta Labs
> www.scovettalabs.com