Access Restricted Resources and Link Health

Jul 23

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Some outbound links point at resources that refuse automated requests. A link checker sees a refusal, not a broken page, and should report it distinctly.

This example points at a restricted endpoint which returns a refusal rather than content.

A second one uses a rate limited endpoint which behaves the same way from an auditing perspective.

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