Problem with tilde in URL?

[wummel]

Converted from SourceForge issue 1327058, submitted by sagarcia

I was doing a link check of my site, which is
http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~steve and linkchecker
crashed. Here is the dialog:

linkchecker http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~steve
LinkChecker 1.12.1 Copyright \uffff
2000-2004 Bastian Kleineidam
LinkChecker comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY!
This is free software, and you are welcome to
redistribute it
under certain conditions. Look at the file `LICENSE'
within this
distribution.
Get the newest version at
http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/
Write comments and bugs to [email protected]

Start checking at 2005-10-14 11:52:44-007

URL sol8_setup.iso
Name Setup Solaris
Parent URL http://www.cs.csubak.edu/%7Esteve/, line
125, col 3
Real URL http://www.cs.csubak.edu/%7Esteve/sol8_setup.iso
Check Time 0.035 seconds
Result Error: 404 Not Found

********** Oops, I did it again. *************

You have found an internal error in LinkChecker. Please
write a bug report
at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1913&atid=101913
or send mail to [email protected] and
include the following information:

1. The URL or file you are testing
2. Your commandline arguments and/or configuration.
3. The system information below.

If you disclose some information because its too
private to you thats ok.
I will try to help you nontheless (but you have to give
me something
I can work with ;).

exceptions.AttributeError addinfourl instance has no
attribute 'code'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/linkcheck/UrlData.py",
line 293, in check
self._check()
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/linkcheck/UrlData.py",
line 354, in _check
self.checkConnection()
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py",
line 112, in checkConnection
if not self.robotsTxtAllowsUrl():
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py",
line 418, in robotsTxtAllowsUrl
rp.read()
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/linkcheck/robotparser2.py",
line 70, in read
f = _opener.open(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 364, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 468, in
http_response
code, msg, hdrs = response.code, response.msg,
response.info()
AttributeError: addinfourl instance has no attribute 'code'
System info:
LinkChecker 1.12.1
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Sep 29 2005, 12:47:21)
[GCC 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)] on
linux2

******** LinkChecker internal error, bailing out ********

Thats it. 1 error in 22 links found
Stopped checking at 2005-10-14 11:52:47-007 ( 2.948
seconds)

[wummel]

Submitted by calvin

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The version 1.12.1 of LinkChecker is very old and not
supported anymore. Please try to install the latest version
(3.3) which fixes the reported issue.

Thanks.