Automated client-based web application URL link extraction tool for use in testing and verification of internet web servers and associated applications executing thereon

Abstract

A get request employing TCPIP sockets is issued which obtains requested HTML pages associated with the application from the web server. A search is executed extracting all links on the page automatically. The links are optionally sorted as designated in an input file or command line in random order so as to generate a typical access paths through the web server application during testing and verification thereof. The retrieved and extracted data is formatted and output in a common format employable in an input file by multiple test application tools which request, capture, store, verify data returned from, and stress the web servers and associated applications. In a preferred embodiment, server port, and server name specified by host name or address, may be designated either in the input file or command line.

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