LinkScan Version 2.1 Introduced by Elsop

Gardnerville, NV - April 22, 1997 - Electronic Software Publishing Corp. (Elsop) introduces new features in LinkScan version 2.1 that greatly enhance its power and flexibility for checking very large internet and intranet websites.

Conventional link checking and site mapping tools use only the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and TCP/IP to analyse the web site under examination. Elsop developed LinkScan using a different approach - file system navigation - to provide users with much greater performance and a solution with unparalled scalability. LinkScan is being used today on many truly massive web sites with tens of thousands of pages and external links.

With the introduction of LinkScan 2.1, Elsop has added a number of features that include support for:

The effect of these new capabilities is a system which offers a unique blend of file system and HTTP navigation giving the user the best of both worlds: (1) the performance and scalability benefits of file system navigation and (2) the strengths of HTTP navigation. These combined new features mean LinkScan can analyze "dynamic" pages created on-the-fly by programs such as Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts, Active Server Pages (ASP) and numerous Relational Database Management Systems.

LinkScan also supports proxy servers which is a requisite for organizations that have large internal networks and stringent security requirements. It gives the system administrators much more flexibility when integrating LinkScan into complex Intranet environments.

LinkScan is the only link checker that uses multi-threaded simultaneous processing which enables it to check external links at a rate in excess of 40,000 links per hour.

LinkScan 2.1 also incorporates many other small improvements and refinements based on an extensive dialogue with LinkScan customers around the world. A noteworthy example is the expanded navigation tool bar in LinkScan's powerful TapMap, an expandable and collapsible site map that provides easy and quick display of a website's entire hierarchical structure with instant access to any of its pages.

Elsop's LinkScan reports and site maps may be viewed using any of the standard Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator 1.2 and up, and Microsoft Internet Explorer on any platform including Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Macintosh, and, of course, Unix. LinkScan can be used by virtually anyone because it is designed to run on industry standard Unix and Microsoft Windows NT web servers.

About Electronic Software Publishing Corporation

Founded in January, 1997, privately held Electronic Software Publishing Corporation is based in Gardnerville, Nevada. Elsop's mission is to provide the most advanced high quality software for the maintenance, quality assurance and management of large scale intranet and internet websites.