Web Spider Obstacle Course (WSOC)

Description

The Web Spider Obstacle Course (WSOC) is an example web server that tests the thoroughness and resilience of Web Spiders.

Features

  • Written as a Sinatra application.
  • Provides Specs for the expected behavior of a web spider for every link in the Obstacle Course.
  • Provides an Obstacle Course containing:
    • Empty links.
    • Circular links.
    • Links with relative-paths.
    • Links with absolute-paths.
    • Remote links.
    • javascript: links.
    • Links within +frameset+ and +iframe+ tags.
    • Cookie protected pages.
    • HTTP 300, 301, 302, 303 and 307 Redirects.
    • Meta-Refresh Redirects.
    • HTTP Baisc Auth protected pages.

Synopsis

$ wsoc_server -p 8080

Requirements

Install

$ gem install wsoc

License

WSOC - The Web Spider Obstacle Course

Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Hal Brodigan (postmodern.mod3 at gmail.com)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA