wummel · jsoref · Mar 19, 2026 · Mar 18, 2026 · Mar 18, 2026 · Mar 18, 2026
diff --git a/config/linkcheckerrc b/config/linkcheckerrc
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
 #  ^https?://www\.example\.com/~calvin/ calvin mypass
 #  ^ftp://www\.example\.com/secret/ calvin
 
-# if the website requires a login the URL and optionally the user and
+# if the website requires a login, the URL and optionally the user and
 # password CGI fieldnames can be provided.
 #loginurl=http://www.example.com/
 

diff --git a/doc/changelog.txt b/doc/changelog.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Fixes:
   Closes: GH bug #521
 - cgi: Sanitize configuration.
   Closes: GH bug #519
-- checking: Use user-supplied authentication and proxies when requestiong
+- checking: Use user-supplied authentication and proxies when requesting
   robot.txt.
 - plugins: Fix Word file check plugin.
   Closes: GH bug #530
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Features:
 
 Changes:
 - checking: Ignored URLs are reported earlier now.
-- checking: Updated the list of unkonwn or ignored URI schemes.
+- checking: Updated the list of unknown or ignored URI schemes.
 - checking: Internal errors do not disable check threads anymore.
 - checking: Disable URL length warning for data: URLs.
 - checking: Do not warn about missing addresses on mailto links that have
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Changes:
   is a maximum redirection limit anyway.
   Closes: GH bug #444, #419
 - checking: Disallowed access by robots.txt is an info now, not
-  a warning. Otherwise it produces a lot of warnings which
+  a warning. Otherwise, it produces a lot of warnings which
   is counter-productive.
 - checking: Do not check SMTP connections for mailto: URLs anymore.
   It resulted in lots of false warnings since spam prevention
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ Changes:
 
 Fixes:
 - checking: Apache Coyote (the HTTP server of Tomcat) sends the wrong
-  Content-Type on HEAD requests. Automatically fallback to GET in this
+  Content-Type on HEAD requests. Automatically fall back to GET in this
   case.
   Closes: GH bug #414
 - checking: Do not use GET on POST forms.
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Fixes:
 8.3 "Mahna Mahna Killer" (released 6.1.2013)
 
 Features:
-- project: The Project moved to Github.
+- project: The Project moved to GitHub.
   Closes: GH bug #368
 
 Changes:
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ Changes:
 - dependencies: Require and use Python 2.6.
 - cmdline: Removed deprecated options --no-anchor-caching and
   --no-proxy-for.
-- config: Remove backwards compatilibity parsing and require the
+- config: Remove backwards compatibility parsing and require the
   new multiline configuration syntax.
 - logging: Use codecs module for proper output encoding.
   Closes: SF bug #3114624
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ Changes:
 - cmdline: Don't log a warning if URL has been redirected.
   Closes: SF bug #3078820
 - checking: Do not print warnings for HTTP -> HTTPS and HTTPS -> HTTP
-  redirects any more.
+  redirects anymore.
 - logging: Changed comment format in GML output to be able to load the
   graph in gephi.
 - gui: Remove timeout and thread options.
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ Changes:
 - checking: Improved HTML parsing speed:
   a) The parsers for HTML title and robots.txt meta tags stop after seeing
      a <body> tag.
-  b) Anchor references are not always parsed, but onl when the--anchor
+  b) Anchor references are not always parsed, but only when the--anchor
      option was given.
   c) Found HTML links are not queued after parsing the whole file, but
      directly when found. This also saves some memory.
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ Fixes:
   Closes: SF bug #2806790
 - http: Fixed persistent connection handling: retry connecting to HTTP
   servers which close persistent connections unexpectedly.
-- bookmarks: correctly read the bookmark title from Mozilla places.sqllite
+- bookmarks: correctly read the bookmark title from Mozilla places.sqlite
 - checking: ignore the fragment part (ie. the anchor) of URIs when
   getting and caching HTTP content; follows the HTTP/1.1 specification which
   does not include fragments in the protocol. Thanks to Martin von Gagern
@@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ Features:
 
   * Remove gopher: URL checking.
     Type: feature
-    Changed: linkcheck/checker/unkonwnurl.py
+    Changed: linkcheck/checker/unknownurl.py
     Removed: linkcheck/checker/gopherurl.py
 
 4.9 "Michael Clayton" (released 25.4.2008)
@@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@ Features:
     Changed: linkcheck/linkparse.py, linkcheck/checker/urlbase.py
     Closes: SF bug #1831900
 
-  * Try to detect unkonwn URL schemes from the command line, eg. URLs
+  * Try to detect unknown URL schemes from the command line, eg. URLs
     like "rtsp://foo".
     Type: feature
     Changed: linkchecker, linkcheck/lc_cgi.py,
@@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ Features:
     Type: documentation
     Removed: doc/fr/*
 
-  * Correct misnamed colums in create.sql script: r/*string/\1/g
+  * Correct misnamed columns in create.sql script: r/*string/\1/g
     Type: bugfix
     Changed: config/create.sql
     Closes: SF #1849733
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ Features:
   * The default intern pattern matches both http: and https: schemes
     now.
     Type: feature
-    Changed: linckheck/checker/internpaturl.py
+    Changed: linkcheck/checker/internpaturl.py
 
   * If the robots.txt connection times out, don't bother to check
     the URL but report an error immediately. Avoids having the
@@ -1743,8 +1743,8 @@ Features:
     Type: bugfix
     Changed: linkcheck/checker/httpurl.py
 
-  * Workaround a urllib2.py bug raising ValueError on some failed
-    HTTP authorisations.
+  * Work around a urllib2.py bug raising ValueError on some failed
+    HTTP authorizations.
     Type: bugfix
     Closes: SF bug #1250555
     Changed: linkcheck/robotparser2.py
@@ -2367,7 +2367,7 @@ Features:
 
   * All leading directories of a given output log file are created
     automatically now. Errors creating these directories or opening
-    the log file for writing abort the checking and print a usage mesage.
+    the log file for writing abort the checking and print a usage message.
     Type: feature
     Changed: linkchecker, linkcheck/logger/__init__.py
 
@@ -2505,7 +2505,7 @@ Features:
     Type: feature
     Changed: linkcheck/__init__.py
 
-  * Removed debug print statement when issueing linkchecker --help.
+  * Removed debug print statement when issuing linkchecker --help.
     Type: bugfix
     Changed: linkchecker
 
@@ -2631,7 +2631,7 @@ Features:
     Type: feature
     Changed: linkcheck/checker/cache.py
 
-  * the given user/password authententication is now also used to
+  * the given user/password authentication is now also used to
     get robots.txt files.
     Type: feature
     Changed: linkcheck/robotparser2.py, linkcheck/checker/cache.py
@@ -3041,7 +3041,7 @@ Features:
 1.8.9
   * recompile with bison 1.875a
     Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmlparse.[ch]
-  * remove stpcpy declaration, fixes compile error on RedHat 7.x
+  * remove stpcpy declaration, fixes compile error on Red Hat 7.x
     Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmlsax.h
   * clarify keyboard interrupt warning to wait for active connections
     to finish
@@ -3158,9 +3158,9 @@ Features:
   * Add again python-dns, the Debian package maintainer is unresponsive
     Added files: linkcheck/DNS/*.py
     Changed files: INSTALL, setup.py
-  * You must now use named constants for ANSII color codes
+  * You must now use named constants for ANSI color codes
     Changed files: linkcheckerrc, linkcheck/log/ColoredLogger.py
-  * Release RedHat 8.0 rpm packages.
+  * Release Red Hat 8.0 rpm packages.
     Changed files: setup.py, MANIFEST.in
   * remove --robots-txt from manpage, fix HTZP->HTTP typo
     Changed files: linkchecker.1
@@ -3243,7 +3243,7 @@ Features:
 
 1.6.2:
   * Warn about unknown Content-Encodings. Dont parse HTML in this case.
-  * Support deflate content encoding (snatched from Debians reportbug)
+  * Support deflate content encoding (snatched from Debian's reportbug)
   * Add appropriate Accept-Encoding header to HTTP request.
   * Updated german translations
 

diff --git a/doc/de.po b/doc/de.po
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ msgstr "B<Host> (erforderlich)"
 # type: Plain text
 #. type: Plain text
 #: en/linkchecker.1:267
-msgid "Sets the domain the cookies are valid for."
+msgid "Sets the domain for which the cookies are valid."
 msgstr "Setzt die Domäne für die die Cookies gültig sind."
 
 # type: TP
@@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ msgstr "B<Path> (optional)"
 # type: Plain text
 #. type: Plain text
 #: en/linkchecker.1:270
-msgid "Gives the path the cookies are value for; default path is B</>."
+msgid "Gives the path for which the cookies are valid; default path is B</>."
 msgstr "Gibt den Pfad für den die Cookies gültig sind; Standardpfad ist B</>."
 
 # type: TP

diff --git a/doc/en/linkchecker.1 b/doc/en/linkchecker.1
@@ -263,10 +263,10 @@ following possible names:
 .
 .TP
 \fBHost\fP (required)
-Sets the domain the cookies are valid for.
+Sets the domain for which the cookies are valid.
 .TP
 \fBPath\fP (optional)
-Gives the path the cookies are value for; default path is \fB/\fP.
+Gives the path for which the cookies are valid; default path is \fB/\fP.
 .TP
 \fBSet-cookie\fP (required)
 Set cookie name/value. Can be given more than once.
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ A mailto: link eventually resolves to a list of email addresses.
 If one address fails, the whole list will fail.
 For each mail address we check the following things:
 .
-  1) Check the adress syntax, both of the part before and after
+  1) Check the address syntax, both of the part before and after
      the @ sign.
   2) Look up the MX DNS records. If we found no MX record,
      print an error.
@@ -352,15 +352,15 @@ FTP links (\fBftp:\fP)
   For FTP links we do:
 
   1) connect to the specified host
-  2) try to login with the given user and password. The default
+  2) try to log in with the given user and password. The default
      user is ``anonymous``, the default password is ``anonymous@``.
   3) try to change to the given directory
   4) list the file with the NLST command
 
 .TP
 Telnet links (``telnet:``)
 
-  We try to connect and if user/password are given, login to the
+  We try to connect and if user/password are given, log in to the
   given telnet server.
 
 .TP
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ connection to the internet (e.g. with diald), it will connect when
 checking links not pointing to your local host.
 Use the \fB\-\-ignore\-url\fP option to prevent this.
 
-Javascript links are not supported.
+JavaScript links are not supported.
 
 If your platform does not support threading, LinkChecker disables it
 automatically.

diff --git a/doc/fr.po b/doc/fr.po
@@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ msgstr ""
 
 # type: Plain text
 #: en/linkchecker.1:278
-msgid "Sets the scheme the cookies are valid for; default scheme is B<http>."
+msgid "Sets the scheme for which the cookies are valid; default scheme is B<http>."
 msgstr ""
 
 # type: TP
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ msgstr ""
 
 # type: Plain text
 #: en/linkchecker.1:281
-msgid "Sets the domain the cookies are valid for."
+msgid "Sets the domain for which the cookies are valid."
 msgstr ""
 
 # type: TP
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ msgstr ""
 
 # type: Plain text
 #: en/linkchecker.1:284
-msgid "Gives the path the cookies are value for; default path is B</>."
+msgid "Gives the path for which the cookies are valid; default path is B</>."
 msgstr ""
 
 # type: TP

diff --git a/doc/install.txt b/doc/install.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ in your programs folder
 
 Setup for GNU/Linux
 -------------------
-On all major Linux distributions (Debian, Mandriva, Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu),
+On all major Linux distributions (Debian, Mandriva, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu),
 the ``linkchecker`` package is available for install.
 
 

diff --git a/doc/linkchecker.doc.pot b/doc/linkchecker.doc.pot
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ msgstr ""
 
 #. type: Plain text
 #: en/linkchecker.1:267
-msgid "Sets the domain the cookies are valid for."
+msgid "Sets the domain for which the cookies are valid."
 msgstr ""
 
 #. type: TP
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ msgstr ""
 
 #. type: Plain text
 #: en/linkchecker.1:270
-msgid "Gives the path the cookies are value for; default path is B</>."
+msgid "Gives the path for which the cookies are valid; default path is B</>."
 msgstr ""
 
 #. type: TP
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #: en/linkchecker.1:349
 #, no-wrap
 msgid ""
-"  1) Check the adress syntax, both of the part before and after\n"
+"  1) Check the address syntax, both of the part before and after\n"
 "     the @ sign.\n"
 "  2) Look up the MX DNS records. If we found no MX record,\n"
 "     print an error.\n"
@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #, no-wrap
 msgid ""
 "  1) connect to the specified host\n"
-"  2) try to login with the given user and password. The default\n"
+"  2) try to log in with the given user and password. The default\n"
 "     user is ``anonymous``, the default password is ``anonymous@``.\n"
 "  3) try to change to the given directory\n"
 "  4) list the file with the NLST command\n"
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #: en/linkchecker.1:365
 #, no-wrap
 msgid ""
-"  We try to connect and if user/password are given, login to the\n"
+"  We try to connect and if user/password are given, log in to the\n"
 "  given telnet server.\n"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ msgstr ""
 
 #. type: Plain text
 #: en/linkchecker.1:436
-msgid "Javascript links are not supported."
+msgid "JavaScript links are not supported."
 msgstr ""
 
 #. type: Plain text

diff --git a/doc/upgrading.txt b/doc/upgrading.txt
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Python >= 2.5 is now required.
 
 The CGI script access control has been removed. Please use the access
 control of your webserver to restrict access to the CGI script.
-An example configuration file for the Apache weberver has been included
+An example configuration file for the Apache webserver has been included
 in the distribution.
 
 Migrating from 4.4 to 4.5
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ should be written as:
     # this is a comment
     ^nntp:
 
-Note the leading spac(es) at the beginning of each line after
+Note the leading space(s) at the beginning of each line after
 ``ignore=``.
 If an indented line starts with a comment sign, it will be ignored.
 
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ server, so your checking time might increase if the server enforces
 such a delay through its robots.txt file.
 
 URLs with invalid syntax are now cached, and they get matched now by
-the --ingore-url option.
+the --ignore-url option.
 
 Migrating from 3.0 to 3.1
 -------------------------

diff --git a/doc/web/content/donations.md b/doc/web/content/donations.md
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ Hopefully LinkChecker has been useful for you and your projects.
 In case you are considering to give something back, feel free to
 send me some money over paypal or klick the flattr button on the right.
 
-If you already donated something I herebay say thanks!
+If you already donated something I hereby say thanks!