Re: [W3C Developers] Link checker and https->http

Many thanks, I've done that.

David

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 at 05:49 Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org <mailto:denis@w3.org>> wrote:
Hi David,

Although there are not many contributors, that project is developed on
Github [1]. May I suggest you create an issue and the maintainer should
get back to you.

Regarding the feedback link, I submitted a pull request to point users
to Github [2].

Regards,

Denis

[1] https://github.com/w3c/link-checker <https://github.com/w3c/link-checker>
[2] https://github.com/w3c/link-checker/pull/6 <https://github.com/w3c/link-checker/pull/6>

On 07/23/2016 12:38 AM, David Earl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since pretty much all browsers block http embedding in https pages, can
> I suggest that the W3C link checker could usefully check this condition.
> (Of course if the source is not via a URL, you'd have to have a check
> box or some such indicating the source is intended to be served over
> https, but in the normal case where someone is checking a remote site,
> you'd already know this). I'm talking about <img src='http://...'>,
> <video src='http://...'> and related, <iframe src='http://...'> etc.
>
> (By the way, the feedback link at the bottom of the link checker page at
> https://validator.w3.org/checklink <https://validator.w3.org/checklink> doesn't seem to do anything useful,
> or I would have used that).
>
> Just a thought,
> David Earl
>