NAME Test::Pod::No404s - Checks POD for http 404 links SYNOPSIS #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More; eval "use Test::Pod::No404s"; if ( $@ ) { plan skip_all => 'Test::Pod::No404s required for testing POD'; } else { all_pod_files_ok(); } ABSTRACT Using this test module will check your POD for any http 404 links. DESCRIPTION This module looks for any http(s) links in your POD and verifies that they will not return a 404. It uses LWP::UserAgent for the heavy lifting, and simply lets you know if it failed to retrieve the document. More specifically, it uses $response->is_error as the "test." Normally, you wouldn't want this test to be run during end-user installation because they might have no internet! It is HIGHLY recommended that this be used only for module authors' RELEASE_TESTING phase. To do that, just modify the synopsis to add an env check :) Methods all_pod_files_ok( [ @files ] ) This function is what you will usually run. It automatically finds any POD in your distribution and runs checks on them. Accepts an optional argument: an array of files to check. By default it checks all POD files it can find in the distribution. Every file it finds is passed to the "pod_file_ok" function. pod_file_ok( FILENAME, [ TESTNAME ] ) "pod_file_ok()" will okay the test if there is no http(s) links present in the POD or if all links are not an error. Furthermore, if the POD was malformed as reported by Pod::Simple, the test will fail and not attempt to check the links. When it fails, "pod_file_ok()" will show any failing links as diagnostics. The optional second argument TESTNAME is the name of the test. If it is omitted, "pod_file_ok()" chooses a default test name "404 test for FILENAME". EXPORT Automatically exports the two subs. SEE ALSO LWP::UserAgent Pod::Simple Test::Pod SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Test::Pod::No404s Websites * Search CPAN * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation * CPAN Ratings * CPAN Forum * RT: CPAN's Request Tracker * CPANTS Kwalitee * CPAN Testers Results * CPAN Testers Matrix * Git Source Code Repository Bugs Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-test-pod-no404s at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. AUTHOR Apocalypse Thanks to the author of Test::Pod for the basic framework of this module! Thanks to the POE guys for finding 404 links in their POD, and was the inspiration for this module. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2010 by Apocalypse This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.