Somehow we should think very carefully about how to back the WWW::Link class with a database. As one option we should split up the link into different records in an SQL database. There would be tables like Links id url status reliability - possibly a perl object as a string? Tests id LINK-ID date response pages-to-links page-url LINK-ID description Infostrucs url-base dir-base test that the link makes reasonable suggestions for when it should be checked (e.g. within the next month and no later etc.) test for redirects of finite length test for indefinite redirects test for non redirects Information categorisation User configured v.s. Automatically Extracted Page information / Link Information Information about a test. Information about all tests.