False Positives and DDoS protection by Cloudflare

The number of false positives continues increasing.

There’s no tab just for listing false positives after links have been marked as not broken.

In addition, more and more websites are using “DDoS protection by Cloudflare.” All of those time out in the plugin. I mark them as not broken after manually verifying they work.

Thinking these issues could be an old user-agent issue, I updated the user agent on line 185 and 424 of wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/modules/checkers/http.php to:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

It didn’t fix the issues, but the plugin did continue functioning.

I then commented out lines 194 and 425 in case the sites were blocking my domain.

That didn’t fix the issues either, but the plugin continues functioning.

However, a few sites that were false positives before my changes rechecked as 200 OK.

Will the plugin developers please update the plugin to fix these and other issues outstanding, or will they once again leave this plugin untouched for months, if not years?

I’m not trying to be insulting, but I was under the impression @managewp (I don’t know if @ links work unless the parties are already active in the support thread) was going to really swing back into supporting this plugin.

Thank you.

CC: @hongpong and @kouteki