checklink dies w/ status 255: Modification of non-creatable array value attempted

[dongourley]

I get an error like this when I run checklink against some large HTML files:

Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -2147468066 at /usr/local/bin/checklink line 1443.

line 1443 is in the loop distributing links to avoid 1s delay between HEAD requests to the same host:

1440:    # Distribute them
1441:    my @result;
1442:    while (my @chunk = splice(@all, 0, $num)) {
1443:        @result[@indexes] = @chunk;
1444:        @indexes = map { $_ + 1 } @indexes;
1445:    }

These files are artificially created from links in a database. I am currently building them with max 50000 links ... not sure if the number of links is part of the problem and if so what max I should use.

I'm attaching a test file. Recreate the problem with this command (you may need to add file to the Allowed_Protocols):

checklink -b -e MU-01.html

testhtml.zip

[dongourley]

Could I turn off the distribute_links() call on line 1274? If I do I need to convert the hash input to a list like the output...is that just a list of the keys?