Validate tool

It checks that your URLs are working properly, your content does not have scripts in it or that it is correctly in AOL HTML.

Find the table below showing how to use the Validate tool features:

Field Name Description
Test all URLs

This checks and sees that all URLs in your content can be reached. When you test URLs, you get a report for each telling you its status:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

This web page was found and can be retrieved successfully.

HTTP/1.1 302 Found

This page redirects to another page. Aurea List Manager does not track to the redirect location, so it cannot confirm that the redirect was successful.

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

The URL does not exist, according to the destination web server.

Failed!

DNS failed looking up the hostname for this URL.

AOL HTML Compatibility

This checks that your content's HTML is compatible with AOL Version 5.0 and higher.

If a large number of your members are using AOL, you may want to check that your HTML is AOL compatible. Later versions of AOL (6.0 and higher) can read standard HTML, but strips out the following elements:

  • ActiveX
  • Audio
  • External Style Sheets
  • Frames and IFrames
  • Java
  • Meta Refresh
  • Scripts: JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, etc.
  • Tooltips
  • Video
No JavaScript

This checks whether JavaScript is in your content. AOL, Hotmail and other ISPs automatically strip out JavaScript from messages, so your content may not appear the way you want it to look if you leave JavaScript in.

No Java

This checks whether Java is in your content. AOL, Hotmail and other ISPs automatically strip out Java from messages, so your content may not appear the way you want it to look if you leave Java in.

No Scripts

This checks whether any scripting, for example : Java, JavaScript, ActiveX is in your content. AOL, Hotmail, and other ISPs automatically strip out scripting from messages, so your content may not appear the way you want it to look if you leave scripting in