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Categories Technical
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 30, 2023

Link Validation job use HTTP HEAD and report working external links as broken

The Optimizely CMS link validation job validates both internal and external links.

External links are validating using a HTTP HEAD request, but a lot of websites (including world.optimizely.com) do not respond to HEAD requests and are because of this reported as broken.


It should be possible to configure the job to use HTTP GET instead of HTTP HEAD. At least for a list of domains that are known to have this issue.