How Other Link Checkers Do Recursion

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Author: zdw

Date: 6/3/2026

Article Summary:

The article discusses the challenges of implementing recursion in a link checker, specifically in the context of a unidirectional pipeline architecture. The author analyzes the approaches of other link checkers, including muffet, LinkChecker, linkinator, and broken-link-checker, to understand how they handle recursion and termination.