> Excluding Specific URL's During Site Analysis Processing
There are some drawbacks to completely mapping a website especially
when you are mapping a site which has a login process.
What usually happens is that the site analysis tends to abort since it
reads the logout link as part of the site analysis. Another example
is if there is a specific page in your site which contains a big file
which you do not want to be mapped or if you do not want to map any
files (images) with the ".gif" extension. eValid has a special
capability to exclude such files by searching for special instances of
the string which you specify in the URL.
(1) Navigate to a site which you want to map.
(2) Open the Site Analysis preferences by clicking on "eValid:
Settings > Site Analysis Prefs > Search Links of Type.
(3) Click the Exclude URLs box. Note that this wakes up the Exclude
URLs File area.
(4) If no Exclude URLs file is selected, click on Browse... and
choose an Exclude URLs file from the available selections. After
choosing a file, click Open to select that file.
(5) You can view what strings are being blocked, and edit your own
strings into the file, by clickin on Edit.
(6) You may add a full URL or just strings from the URL you want to
exclude. For example, you could exclude inadvertent logouts by
adding the string: "http://www.mysite.com/logout.html" or even
just the string "logout.html".
NOTE: You may choose to put in the entire URL to be excluded or simply
the word "logout". If eValid finds such words in the URL, it will
automatically exclude the URL from those being checked.
Having this kind of functionality available from eValid can
drastically reduce time in mapping a site because the user has full
control over what he wants to map -- and NOT map!
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