On Sunday 30 August 2009, Kevin Keane wrote: > On a number of Web sites, check-link returns with an HTTP error 406, > even with correct Accept header settings, and even when wget and links > can access the site without a problem. > > Through trial and error, I found that on at least one site, the culprit > is the User-Agent header. Adding the line > > $request->header('User-Agent', 'W3C-linkcheck'); > > before line 1307 solves this issue. Normally, the user agent is > W3C-checklink/4.5 [4.154] libwww-perl/5.805 They might be triggering on "libwww-perl" in the user agent string. I suggest contacting such sites and reporting the bug/asking for an explanation why.Received on Tuesday, 8 September 2009 17:47:41 UTC
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