Link Status report shows HTTPS external links

Helani Wanniarachchi

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The Link Status report contains the valid https external links included in our site content. The link status is "Connection Error".

Is there a way to configure this, that the job can read secure connections properly?

#207499

Sep 23, 2019 7:12

Praful Jangid

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This Link Validation (check Link Validation Job here) Job in the Scheduled Job is responsible for generating this report.

If you read details carefully, it says if huge number of pages are found not accessible then it will stop the job. Are you getting 404 link status or something else?

#207588

Sep 26, 2019 10:23

Helani Wanniarachchi

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No, the Link Validation job successfully executes everyday without failing. Problem is it reports valid https external links as broken links.

#207589

Edited, Sep 26, 2019 10:26

Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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Can you reach the links from your webserver?

If you want the job to stop (trying to) validate the external URLs, you may prevent it with an exclude pattern in web.config:

<linkValidator 
	maximumRunTime="4:00:00" 
	recheckInterval="30.00:00:00"
	internalLinkValidation="Api">
	<excludePatterns>
		<add regex="https:\/\/.*"/>
	</excludePatterns>
</linkValidator>

#207686

Edited, Sep 30, 2019 21:03

Helani Wanniarachchi - Oct 01, 2019 7:24

Yes, the links are reachable from the webserver, however the link validation job fails to reach them. Anyways I will add an exclude pattern for https links. Thanks