MECHANISM TO TRAP OBSOLETE WEB PAGE REFERENCES AND AUTO-CORRECT INVALID WEB PAGE REFERENCES

摘要

A mechanism to trap obsolete web page references and auto-correct invalid Web page references is provided. With the mechanism, Web pages of a Web site are indexed in an indexed data structure having entries that list the references contained in the Web page. A Website reference monitor monitors changes to the Web pages and content referenced by these Web pages. If a change to the Web pages or referenced content is detected, other Web pages in the Web site that reference the modified content or Web pages are identified using the indexed data structure. The identified other Web pages may then be automatically updated. In addition, when a client device requests a Web page, the references in the Web page are checked to determine if they reference obsolete or invalid content and such references are modified to be non-selectable before providing the Web page to the client device.