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POWhy this java link checker code does not compile?
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    copied!<p>I already read the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65515/how-to-find-broken-links-on-a-website">link checker</a> question posted in SO. If there are more questions of this kind and I missed them, my apologies.</p> <p>We need to find broken links in a <a href="http://blog.readytocloud.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">website</a> in a very easy way and scriptable way, so we can document the links that are broken. I found a <a href="http://unserializableone.blogspot.com/2008/12/link-checker-with-java-better-version.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">blog post</a> with some code written in java that will do exactly what I need, and my very basic knowledge let me compile it, but I get errors every time. I thought that maybe someone here might be able to direct me to why the code does not compile. </p> <p>Here is the code:</p> <pre><code>import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; class links { private static boolean isLive(String link) { HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null; try { URL url = new URL(link); urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); urlConnection.setRequestMethod("HEAD"); urlConnection.connect(); String redirectLink = urlConnection.getHeaderField("Location"); if (redirectLink != null &amp;&amp; !url.equals(redirectLink)) { return isLive(redirectLink); } else { return urlConnection.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK; } } catch (Exception e) { return false; } finally { if (urlConnection != null) { urlConnection.disconnect(); } } } public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(isLive("http://www.fakelink.net")); } } </code></pre> <p>Thanks to all that reply. I putting the code that compiles here, for future reference.</p>
 

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