Big Brother Manual
version 2.0.4

François Pottier

January 16, 2005

• Introduction
• What is Big Brother?
• What Big Brother is not
• Quick start
• Reference
• General syntax
• Syntax of URLs
• Setting up mappings: -mapfrom and -mapto
• Controlling recursion: -rec
• Checking -local or -remote links
• Configuring local checks: -index and -localhtml
• Using a proxy: -proxy and -noproxy
• Controlling concurrency: -maxthreads
• Reading from a pipe: -stdin
• Measuring one's patience: -timeout
• Being -gentle with servers
• Using passwords: -realm, -user and -password
• Reporting results: -oraw and -ohtml
• Focusing on -failures
• Checking -fragments
• Ignoring certain links: -ignore
• Getting version information: -v
• Examples
• Checking your bookmarks
• Checking your site
• Miscellaneous
• Disclaimer
• Licence
• Compiling Big Brother
• Contacting me

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François Pottier, January 16, 2005

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