Questions tagged [link-validator]
Tool to prevent posting invalid URLs in questions and answers.
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Why does a particular user profile trigger 'Deceptive Site Ahead' message?
Clicking on the username in a comment by user l'L'l on this question seems to trigger chrome's security alert, stating
Attackers on iplo.ru may trick you into doing something dangerous like
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Any way to work around filtering of links containing numeric addresses?
In a question I posted recently, I tried to include a link to a web page where the host is specified as a numeric IP address (50.56.33.56) rather than a domain name. However, the Stack Exchange ...
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localhost URLs should be allowed for block quotes
Suppose I want to ask a question about some code that doesn't work and need to quote the following error message
There was no endpoint listening at http://localhost.here/Magic that could accept the ...
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Is there any chance the localhost link restriction will be lifted?
Is there any chance that localhost links will be allowed again, or is that a completely closed subject? I've seen these posts, but neither seems to have a clear answer:
The link validator is ...
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Links to Java documentation broken [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Autogenerated links truncate a final closing bracket
Let's say there's a question about how to get a character from a String at a certain index (just an example). I say, "Oh, ...
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Link to relevant meta discussion in 'no numeric IPs' error message
As per this change, numeric links are considered "invalid" and prevent posting with the message:
Your post contains a link to the invalid host '74.125.224.135'.
Please correct it by specifying a ...
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Where should wmd-editor links point to?
There are 98 posts on Stack Overflow that link to http://wmd-editor.com/
The domain is now dead, our work on the wmd editor lives at http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/
During work on my link ...
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The link validator is overzealous and should allow posting so-called 'invalid' links [closed]
On Stack Exchange, as with any web site containing external links, there's a problem known as link rot. This is the phenomenon whereby some URLs no longer point to the information that they once ...
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Your post contains a link to the invalid host '192.168.1.1' [closed]
What's up with this error?
Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:
Your post contains a link to the invalid host '192.168.1.1'.
Please correct it by specifying a non numeric domain or ...
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Does the link validator regard a 302 redirect as broken?
We had this question "Should a link validator report 302 redirects as broken links?" over at webmaster pro's recently. I can only guess at an answer, but based on the OP's findings the stackbot ...
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Link validator incorrectly marks ampersands as broken links
We just got crawled for broken links for the first time, and many of the links are of the format
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=...
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How should we handle "conditionally" broken links?
As part of my big mission to rid us of broken links I have come across an edge case I would like to address.
Links such as: http://stackexchange.com/filters/new are broken, unless one is logged on ...
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Validating that which can not be validated, how do we deal with robots exclusions?
Many high profile sites have taken a "white-list" based approach to robots.txt
Examples are:
Github
Facebook
Delicious
The result is that we are not allowed to automatically check that any ...
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Invalid link comment with no links in question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto-Link-validator marks punycode URLs are invalid
I just noticed this question, which contains no links, has a comment from Community♦ indication a broken link in the ...
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Auto-Link-validator marks punycode URLs as invalid
So the new-find-and-comment-on-invalid-links script has kicked into action. And the way it works is pretty nifty, especially the auto-delete-on-fix. However, it seems to mark answers containing URL-...
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Does Stack Exchange crawl websites?
I'm seeing the user agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; stackexchangebot/1.0; +http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/130398) in my web server logs.
Why is Stack Exchange crawling my site?
Where do I report any ...