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  █▌             -   LINKCHECKER WISHLIST & TROUBLE SHOOTING   -             █▌
 █▌                    All Test Done Using GUI on WinXP SP3                   █▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ LinkChecker is a great tool to check a website for non-working links. I    ▐▌
 █ love that you can exclude selected URLs from being checked. I've just      ▐▌
 █ started using it so I thought I would share my findings and wish list.     ▐▌ 
 █                                                                            ▐▌
                lftp
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ TROUBLE SHOOTING:                                                          ▐▌
 █ 1. If you have a restricted robots.txt on your own website then add to it: ▐▌
 █ User-Agent: LinkChecker                                                    ▐▌
 █ Allow: /                                                                   ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ 2. Windows - If you receive many instances of this error:                  ▐▌
 █ Error: error: [Errno 10048] Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted
 █ Basically it means that the program has run out of ports to use because of ▐▌
 █ the default Windows' settings. To be able to use LinkChecker fully you'll  ▐▌
 █ need to create two registry keys to allow more ports to be used and with a ▐▌
 █ reduced waiting time.                                                      ▐▌
 █ Before doing the registry fix below I had 215 instances of that error.     ▐▌
 █ After doing the registry fix I had 0 instances of that error.              ▐▌
 █ Source here. Open your registry: Start button / run / type in: regedit /OK ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ To be safe always backup your registry before making any changes: Click on ▐▌
 █ the 'My Computer' icon to select it; right, top of the menu.               ▐▌
 █ File / export / save it with any name you like.                            ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █  A. To increase the range of ports navigate to:                            ▐▌
 █  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters     ▐▌
 █  B. Edit menu, click New, DWORD Value, name it: MaxUserPort                ▐▌
 █     Right click on it, select Modify, then enter a range from 5000 - 65534 ▐▌
 █     I entered 6000                                                         ▐▌
 █ NOTE: On the article it states "Increasing the range of ephemeral          ▐▌
 █ ports used for client TCP/IP connections consumes Windows kernel           ▐▌
 █ memory. Do not increase the upper limit for this setting to a value        ▐▌
 █ higher than is required to accommodate client application..."              ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █  C. Then to decrease the waiting time until a port is free, default        ▐▌
 █     is 240 seconds, same location:                                         ▐▌
 █  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters     ▐▌
 █  D. Edit menu, click New, DWORD Value, name it: TcpTimedWaitDelay          ▐▌
 █     Right click on it, select Modify, then enter a range from 30 - 240     ▐▌
 █     I entered 60                                                           ▐▌
 █  E. Close registry editor and you must reboot.                             ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ As per the Note on the article I would recommend to not put the            ▐▌
 █ number of ports too high and the waiting time too low. Test first          ▐▌
 █ and adjust if needed. Furthermore if you don't use LinkChecker that often  ▐▌
 █ than you should delete the two new keys after you are finished using it.   ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ 3. If you receive this error: gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed   ▐▌
 █ I found this fix HERE; it did not work for me:                             ▐▌
 █ Make a backup copy of: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts               ▐▌
 █ Right click on, select Properties: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts   ▐▌
 █ Remove 'Read-only' if it is selected. Open the hosts file in an editor     ▐▌
 █ such as WordPad and comment out (place a # at the begining of a line) if   ▐▌
 █ you have this line: 0.0.0.0 localhost                                      ▐▌
 █ You might also need to add: 127.0.0.1 YourHostName                         ▐▌
 █ or if you don't have a host name then your current IP. Try the program     ▐▌
 █ again, no need to reboot.                                                  ▐▌
 █ Once you are finished you can revert back to your backup copy.             ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ WISH LIST:                                                                 ▐▌
 █ 1. Portable, GUI Windows version.                                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ 2. Remember last local save and open location.                             ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ 3. Once selecting an item in the result list, in the GUI window, to not    ▐▌
 █    become deselected when clicking on one of the column's sort buttons.    ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ 4. Can save 'linkcheckerrc' to user's selected location or in the same     ▐▌
 █    installed folder as program and not the default:                        ▐▌
 █    C:\Documents and Settings\User\.linkchecker\linkcheckerrc               ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ 5. An option to not to convert special characters in a given URL to code.  ▐▌
 █ For example LinkChecker states not working:                                ▐▌
 █ http://web.archive.org/web/20120225123719/http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml
 █ Because it is reading it as:                                               ▐▌
 █ http://web.archive.org/web/20120225123719/http%3A/www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ But if I were to encode the URLs in the HTML code they won't work, e.g.:   ▐▌
 █ http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20120225123719%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.nog.net%2F~tony%2Fwarez%2Fcowsay.shtml
 █ http://web.archive.org/web/20120225123719/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nog.net%2F~tony%2Fwarez%2Fcowsay.shtml
 █ http://web.archive.org/web/20120225123719/http%3A%2F/www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml
 █ http://web.archive.org/web/20120225123719/http%3A//www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml
 █ http://web.archive.org/web/20120225123719/http%3B//www.nog.net/%7Etony/warez/cowsay.shtml
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ HERE you can decode and encode URLs or text as above.                      ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ //----------------------------------------------------------------------   ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ If you find mistakes, have suggestions, and or questions please post at    ▐▌
 █ mewbies forum HERE - thank you.                                            ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ Last update on 01 Jul '13                                                  ▐▌
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