Please fix sites doing redirects on HEAD requests

  • Resolved Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    Hello, I love how this plugin is now being updated to fix some of the long-standing issues.

    However one of the issues I’ve struggled with for a long time is that some sites insist on doing a 302 redirect when a HEAD request is received. I’ve even contacted the sites but they insist they are doing nothing wrong, when in fact they are breaking basic http.

    I even made a pull request for this, it works on my site but may not be the most elegant solution to the problem:
    https://github.com/wpmudev/broken-link-checker/pull/54

    One example is:
    https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/courtney-barnett-kurt-vile

    
$ curl -I "https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/courtney-barnett-kurt-vile/"
HTTP/2 302
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
location: https://wetransfer.com/404/
date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:40:00 GMT
server: Apache
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
via: 1.1 vegur, 1.1 071f9eb2da57909aeed117ffdc09bd88.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-cache: Miss from cloudfront
x-amz-cf-pop: HEL50-C1
x-amz-cf-id: LLHEZGwdKUseGdcMg48O3sA94gemdeXgCGLFh85OKgtFBNr7pHq9sg==
    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Stian Lund.
    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Stian Lund.
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  • Plugin Support Kasia – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support2)

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Hello @pathduck ,

    Thank for reaching out to us. I’ll pass this to the developer to check and they will decide what to do in this case.

    kind regards,
    Kasia

    Thread Starter Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)

    4 years ago

    Hello again Kasia,
    I notice the fix I made is now in the plugin. So that’s great, finally. Thank you for that 🙂

    However I also noticed the Github version has not been updated for ages. So I assume the plugin is no longer available on Github? If it is, where is the active repo?

    It would be nice with some acknowledgement in the changelog too 😉

    Stian

    • This reply was modified 4 years ago by Stian Lund.
    Plugin Support Pawel – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support9)

    4 years ago

    Hello @pathduck

    I trust you’re doing well!

    I’m afraid the recent development of the Brocken Link Checker plugin is not available on GitHub, and all development branches are private now. This happened since we (the WPMU DEV) took over over the plugin 😉

    You may see the changelog information here, o wordpres.org, please see this link:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/#developers

    I hope this helps!

    Kind regards,
    Nastia

    Plugin Support Pawel – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support9)

    4 years ago

    Hello @pathduck

    I hope you are doing well!

    We haven’t heard back from you for a while now so we’ve marked this ticket as resolved. If you do have any followup questions or require further assistance feel free to reopen it and let us know here.

    Kind regards,
    Nastia

    Thread Starter Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)

    4 years ago

    My point was that you took the change I made to the Github version and incorporated it into your version without acknowledgement. Not a big deal, but would have been nice…

    Biplav

    (@bplv)

    4 years ago

    Hello @pathduck ,
    Sorry I missed to put the credit up earlier.
    I have updated the changelog and added the credits there.
    Thank you for taking out your time to report the issue and helping us out with it we really appreciate that.

    Best regards,
    Biplav.

    Thread Starter Stian Lund

    (@pathduck)

    4 years ago

    @bplv Thank you – much appreciated! 🙂

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