Big Brother Manual
version 2.0.4

François Pottier

May 5, 2004

• 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