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bepp
Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265 |
Find broken downloads
Is there any query I can do to find entries with broken downloads? I've tried the advanced search but couldn't see "broken download" checkbox. Was thinking of trying to resolve some of them... |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Considering there are 27 releases which only have external links, that doesn't seem to me as too strange. But maybe the scripts are broken too :) |
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bepp
Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265 |
Ah cool page. However, it seems to only check external urls. It doesn't respect the "corrupted file" flag... :-| |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Quote: Ah cool page. However, it seems to only check external urls. It doesn't respect the "corrupted file" flag... :-|
Since most of (if not all) the releases with broken links have internal (i.e. working) download links too, it isn't such a big deal.
Now, what actually could be a problem when the download URLs of those releases that only have external links stop working. So they all need re-uploads to the internal CSDb server. |
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Perff
Administrator
Posts: 1677 |
Here is another link showing corrupted files.
http://csdb.dk/misc/corruptedfiles.php
There have been made some simple DB-extract pages like this over the years when requested by someone, but they are not really documented anywhere.
If you need somthing, just ask like here. :) |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2924 |
Duh, the broken link was used mainly for entries without downloads, remember now. ;) |
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bepp
Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265 |
Thanks Perff! While at it, you might want to check your "broken link" algorithm for external urls... Several of the ones I've tried do actually work - although being reported as broken. Examples:
Arcade Football &GD
APIandC64
Is there a problem with DropBox links and redirects perhaps? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11352 |
i think the links are only checked once in a while, thats why status is wrong sometimes. also obviously if the server doesnt provide a proper reply, but serves some placeholder something instead, then it cant be checked. |
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Perff
Administrator
Posts: 1677 |
Quoting beppThanks Perff! While at it, you might want to check your "broken link" algorithm for external urls... Several of the ones I've tried do actually work - although being reported as broken. Examples:
Arcade Football &GD
APIandC64
Is there a problem with DropBox links and redirects perhaps?
When the check algorithm was made dropbox didn't exists. :) At least I didn' know about it.
And yes, there have been problems with a few sites which dosn't return the classic way of letting me know link is valid.
Can't remember exactly how it is implemented.
This is also why the text says: "Link might be broken" and not "Link is broken". :) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11352 |
that said, cant we just disable external links for downloads? does it even still make sense to have them? (other than 10 years ago, when disk space and/or db size might have been an issue) |
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 1922 |
I somewhat second "no external links" BUT would request that users are allowed to upload larger files than currently. (For e.g. Manual PDF files and alike) |
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