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eValid Power User's Tips and Tricks can help you use eValid to get better results, quicker, and easier. Each Tips and Tricks item addresss one or two issues that will help you to increase your effectiveness with eValid.

> How to Link-Check a Website with Dynamically Generated Pages.

  If a website you're analyzing has dynamically generated content then
  server-side link checking methods will miss a lot of errors.  You can
  use a special eValid command to check links on a page as it is
  actually delivered to the browser.  This is true client side link
  checking.

  Edit eValid's DynamicLinkCheck command into a simple script that
  starts with the URL you want to test:

          #
          # eValid Playback Script for Dynamic Link Checking
          #
          InitLink "http://www.mysite.com"
          DynamicLinkCheck
          #

  The DynamicLinkCheck command runs the built-in Link Wizard on the URL
  you indicate, and then runs the resulting link checks as a sub-script
  to the parent.  When eValid finishes, use eValid > View >
  Message/Error Log to see if any links are broken or unavailable.

  Remember: eValid will show an error if one of the links really is not
  available (a "404" error) or if it downloads so slowly that 
  one of the internal time limits is exceeded.  eValid's view of 
  "broken" is entirely from the user's view.