Chronic incorrect broken link warnings

Hi @steve1950

I hope you are doing well.

Thank you for opening the ticket.

Can you please send an example of a link that it is returning as broken, and if possible a screenshot of the details for example:

https://monosnap.com/file/i2urG9Zs6GGrJEePVDUok3zM7vRwX8

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Hey, Patrick.

Sorry it’s taken me so long to respond to you. Just before the New Year, I had a system drive crash resulting from destruction of the NTFS file system (courtesy of some really bad advice from an app maker who figured it would be safe to install an Android emulator on a BitLocker-protected drive).

It did not go well.

However, a new drive is now in place and I’m back up and running. With respect to the broken links issue, I haven’t received further broken link warnings since our last exchange, but I know they’ll be coming. That’s been the pattern: a period with no warnings, followed by one with repeated warnings (all false positives) over a number of days.

I did try an experiment. I installed another plugin that, among other things, identifies broken links. Right out of the box, it identified 112 broken links — again, all were false positives. So, whatever is going on relates to something I’ve obviously done incorrectly in configuring the site.

I’ll get back to you with screen shots the next time Broken Links Checker starts with the warnings again.

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards (and Happy New Year!),

Steve

Hello again, Patrick.

I reactivated Broken Link Checker and immediately received a warning that the site had 124 broken links — again, false positives based on a random sampling I did.

Most of the links are to Pixabay users’ work, and to pixabay.com generally — clearly, valid links. Here’s a sample link that is not to Pixabay:

<https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/exclusive-satellite-images-of-galwan-valley-clash-india-chinese-troops-in-ladakh-1689900-2020-06-17#:~:text=CHINESE%20TROOPS%20AT%20GALWAN%20VALLEY&text=Over%20200%20military%20vehicles%20and,ground%20in%20the%20Chinese%20side&gt;

I tested the link before copying it here, and it works normally. I’ll now deactivate the plugin again temporarily so that site visitors don’t see a myriad of links with lines through them.

I also have some screenshots for you, including one resembling the sample at the link you provided to me. What I don’t see here is a means of attaching the screenshots for you…

If you send me either a link at which I can upload the screenshots or an email address to which I can send them as attachments, I’ll pass them along.

Thanks, Patrick. I’ll look forward to hearing from you about all this.

Kind regards,

Steve

Could you please send me an email to [email protected] using this template:

Subject: “Attn: Dimitris”

Message: link back to this thread for reference

Keep in mind the subject line, as it ensures that it gets assigned to me.

Thank you,
Dimitris