Test Suite Index
This small test suite has been built to test the link checkers at W3C,
but could be used for any tool used to either check links in HTML documents,
spiders, or miscellaneous Web User-Agents.
This test suite is work in progress. Please submit any issue or idea to the
public mailing-list public-qa-dev@w3.org
Base URI and Content-Location Tests
Does the checker respect base href and content-location info? Does it report broken links based on those?
test base URI with BASE href elt
tested document
relative link goes 404 if BASE href element not parsed
EXPECTED: relative link goes 200 if OK - link checker finds no error
test base URI with HTTP Content-Location
tested document
relative link goes 404 if HTTP Content-Location not parsed
EXPECTED: relative link goes 200 if OK - link checker finds no error
test base URI with BASE href elt and Content-Location
tested document
with both BASE href elt and HTTP Content-Location
href takes precedence http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.4.1
relative link goes 404 if neither BASE nor Content-Location respected
relative link goes 403 if HTTP Content-Location respected instead of BASE
EXPECTED: relative link goes 200 if OK - link checker finds no error
test base URI with relative BASE href (forbidden)
tested document
This document has a bogus BASE href value. Per the spec:
This attribute specifies an absolute URI that acts as the base URI for resolving relative URIs.
test base URI with BASE href elt and Content-Base
tested document
with both BASE href elt and HTTP Content-Base
href takes precedence http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.4.1
relative link goes 404 if neither BASE nor Content-Base respected
relative link goes 403 if HTTP Content-Base respected instead of BASE
EXPECTED: relative link goes 200 if OK - link checker finds no error
HTML 4.01 URI attribute values Tests
Testing whether the checker catches 404 for all attributes values set to %URI type in HTML 4.01
test HTML A href (control)
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A href OK
EXPECTED: link checker passes
test HTML A href (404)
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A href 404
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML BASE href (control)
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test HTML BASE href (404)
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BASE href 404
EXPECTED: link checker does not throw error (not dereferenced)
test HTML BODY background (control)
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test HTML BODY background (404)
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BODY background 404
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML BLOCKQUOTE cite (control)
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test HTML BLOCKQUOTE cite (404)
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BLOCKQUOTE cite 404
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML DEL cite (control)
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test HTML DEL cite (404)
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DEL cite 404
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML FRAME longdesc (control)
tested document
OK frameset document with longdesc dereferencing (control test)
test HTML FRAME longdesc (404)
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Frameset document with a frame longdesc dereferencing into a 404.
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML FRAME src (control)
tested document
OK frameset document with src dereferencing (control test)
test HTML FRAME src (404)
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Frameset document with a frame src dereferencing into a 404.
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML HEAD profile (control)
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test HTML HEAD profile (404)
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test HTML IFRAME longdesc (control)
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test HTML IFRAME longdesc (404)
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test HTML IFRAME src (control)
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test HTML IFRAME src (404)
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test HTML IMG longdesc (control)
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test HTML IMG longdesc (404)
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test HTML IMG src (control)
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test HTML IMG src (404)
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test HTML INPUT src (control)
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INPUT src OK
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML INPUT src (404)
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INPUT src 404
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML INS cite (control)
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test HTML INS cite (404)
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INS cite 404
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML LINK href (control)
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test HTML LINK href (404)
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test HTML Q cite (control)
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test HTML Q cite (404)
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Q cite 404
EXPECTED: link checker throws error
test HTML SCRIPT src (control)
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test HTML SCRIPT src (404)
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Testing whether the checker reports redirects
test reporting HTTP 300 (optional)
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test reporting HTTP 301 (optional)
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test reporting HTTP 302 (optional)
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test reporting HTTP 307 (optional)
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HTTP Error codes test
Testing whether the checker reports all possible kinds of HTTP errors (4xx and 5xx)
test reporting HTTP 400
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test reporting HTTP 401
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test reporting HTTP 402
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test reporting HTTP 403
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test reporting HTTP 404 (DNS error)
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test reporting HTTP 404
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test reporting HTTP 405
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test reporting HTTP 406
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test reporting HTTP 407
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test reporting HTTP 408
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test reporting HTTP 409
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test reporting HTTP 410
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test reporting HTTP 411
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test reporting HTTP 412
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test reporting HTTP 413
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test reporting HTTP 414
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test reporting HTTP 415
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test reporting HTTP 416
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test reporting HTTP 417
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test reporting HTTP 500
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test reporting HTTP 501
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test reporting HTTP 502
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test reporting HTTP 503
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test reporting HTTP 504
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test reporting HTTP 505
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Link Check Test Suite