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Originally posted by WallaceW
So, when you approve some submition, you make a copy of it, or just a CRC check of the html. Then when somebody click on some link, script checks CRC code of the target html page 'live' - if it's identical then you send your user to that site, if it's not then just inform your user that this page doesn't exist anymore and delete that link form your site.
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not really a good idea... a link checker uses a lot of resources and it checks only a few galleries at a time. Now imagine this 'live' checking on a bigger site. Hundreds of clicks in one second... hundreds of additional processes. You'd need a lot of computers to handle the necessary CPU usage. And every check of a gallery implies that the requested gallery needs to be opened by the script, checked and then the surfer can load it. Means he probably has to wait a few seconds (I guess 5-10) before the script sends him to the URL (only if there's enough CPU power). Surfers get bored and leave your site.