A method of automatically generating an e-mail message when a web page contains a dead hyper-link

摘要

A software method comprises browser software that, if an internet user cannot connect to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) pointed to by a dead hyper-link on a page/document (eg a web-page), performs a network conductivity test and then automatically generates an e-mail message which is sent to the web-master of the web-page that contained the dead hyper-link. The decision to initiate this process and send the message would be left to the user of the browser software. To facilitate this web pages would include within a header section of html code a special type of entry giving the e-mail address of the web-master. When a user clicks on a dead hyper-link the browser searches for the special entry which, after verifying internet connectivity, displays a button, on the same web-page, that a user can click on to send the automatic e-mail message.