Validate External Links reports "Forbidden" on everything
In Marked 2, when I run "Validate External Links" (something I do all the time) it reports "Forbidden" on everything (see attached image). The links open just fine when I click on them and these same files validate just fine in Marked. I tried changing from MultiMarkdown to Discount to a custom processor but I get the same results.
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 26 Sep, 2013 05:11 PM
Please send me a couple of the full links.
2 Posted by tom.stoeckel on 26 Sep, 2013 05:19 PM
[GS16485797](http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=GS16485797)
[GS17987789](http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=GS17987789)
[GS18221949](http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=GS18221949)
Support Staff 3 Posted by Brett on 26 Sep, 2013 05:33 PM
Well, that is actually what the server returns:
$ curl -LI http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=GS16485797
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:31:46 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 964
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Not much I can do about that, I'm afraid.
-Brett
4 Posted by tom.stoeckel on 26 Sep, 2013 05:43 PM
It's curious that those links all validate just fine in the original version of Marked.
Support Staff 5 Posted by Brett on 26 Sep, 2013 05:48 PM
Actually, Marked 1.4 didn't have the extra check for the 403 that Marked 2 does. It basically assumed anything that wasn't a 404 or a 500 was ok (a little smarter than that, but essentially…). The Yellow warning state in Marked 2 indicates that there may be a server at the end of the link, but it's returning an improper response, which is exactly what the autodesk server is doing. I honestly have no idea why they would be doing that.
6 Posted by tom.stoeckel on 26 Sep, 2013 05:55 PM
Well, I know those links are shortened and redirect to a fully qualified URL but even if I replace the shortened link with the full link I get the same results. Too bad. I guess I'll be keeping both versions of Marked as this is an operation I need to do all the time.
Thanks for checking.