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         Program: Piltdown
         Version: 0.6
            Date: April 24, 2005
        Language: Perl (of course!)
Operating System: Any
          Author: Richard Rathe
        Web site: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/omi/tools/piltdown/
       Copyright: University of Florida

Q: What can I do with it?
A: Check links on Web sites while you wash dishes.

Q: What's new in this release?
A: I added the -i flag to ignore addresses that contain a specific string
   (for example, -ixxx skips urls containing 'xxx').

Q: How do I install it?
A: Put it where you normally keep command line programs.
   You may have to fix the #! line to match your system.

Q: Where did the strange name come from?
A: Piltdown Man - the missing link!

Q: There are lots of link checkers out there. Why did you write another one?
A: I found that the available Mac GUI link checkers were prone to errors,
   CGI checkers were slow, and command line checkers required a C compiler.

A: How do I get it?
Q: Go to: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/omi/tools/piltdown/

A: What do I pay?
Q: Nothing. The program is free (!), but please do not repackage
   or charge a fee for it.

A: What about distribution?
Q: Feel free to pass it around, extend it, etc. as long as you include
   this readme file and credit the original author (me!).

A: What if it doesn't work, or gives inaccurate information.
Q: Piltdown comes without warrantee of any kind, expressed or implied. 
   Use at your own risk. That said, feel free to contact me with questions,
   bug reports, or requests for future enhancements.

A: How do I contact the author.
Q: Go to http://medinfo.ufl.edu/omi/tools/piltdown/ and click the link.

A: What about the open_TCP function?
Q: I borrowed that bit of code from the book "Web Client Programming"
   by Clinton Wong (now out of print). I augmented and improved his
   original code. All other code is mine alone.

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piltdown: find missing links (and other interesting artifacts)

  usage: piltdown [-densqv] [-i<text>] url [url...]
         -d debugging mode (show extra detail)
         -e check external links (local host only by default)
         -i ignore urls that contain <text> (may be regex)
         -n [0-5] depth of recursion (-2 is the default)
         -s spoof user agent (pretend to be M$IE)
         -q quiet mode (no progress 'dots')
         -v verbose mode (include valid links in report)

Piltdown 0.6 by Richard Rathe
Copyright 2005 by the University of Florida
http://medinfo.ufl.edu/omi/tools/piltdown/

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revision history

0.3		inital release
0.4		added scanning of js files
		removed -a option
		added response code text
		improved link caching
0.5		added ssi failure check
		added content type to verbose output
0.6		completely reengineered get_links
		added check for url() links
		added -i ignore option
		fixed https bug

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