Re: checklink: false positives for broken links

On 5 Sep 2012, at 06:28, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> So I'm puzzled. What is that Lynx and the Link Checker do the same way, and differently from common browsers, that causes this.

My best guess is that they have User-Agent headers that match patterns used by people who write Evil™ Scripts That Do Evil™ Things With Websites.

i.e. it is overly enthusiastic "security" on the server that sends back completely inappropriate status codes.


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David Dorward
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Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2012 08:39:27 UTC