Xenu's Brief Description

Xenu's Link Sleuth™ is a freeware program that is available for download at http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html.

Xenu's spidering software checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

Additional features:

• Simple, no-frills user-interface
• Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
• Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
• Executable file less than 500K
• Supports SSL websites ("https://")
• Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites
• Detects and reports redirected URLs
• Site Map

It is available for Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista, but other operating systems are not supported.