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Bug 2550 - Validator seems to be using the IP instead of the domain when checking links
Summary: Validator seems to be using the IP instead of the domain when checking links
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LinkChecker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: checklink (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2.1
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ville Skyttä
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
URL: http://www.epodunk.com
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Reported: 2005-11-23 16:47 UTC by Joshua Ruppert
Modified: 2005-11-24 13:01 UTC (History)
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Description Joshua Ruppert 2005-11-23 16:47:34 UTC 
When I place our home page into the validator every link comes back as 403
Forbidden. Each link actually works but you will get this message if
http://66.223.23.180 is used instead of http://www.epodunk.com because we are
running more than one site from the same server.
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2005-11-24 13:00:35 UTC 
Nope, the www.epodunk.com server appears to be more or less as it responds with 
"403 Forbidden" to all HEAD requests.  The link checker uses the HTTP HEAD 
method to check links. 
 
$ wget -nv -S --spider http://www.epodunk.com 
http://www.epodunk.com/: 
14:58:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden. 
 
$ HEAD http://www.epodunk.com | head -n 1 
403 Forbidden
Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2005-11-24 13:01:45 UTC 
 (In reply to comment #1) 
> Nope, the www.epodunk.com server appears to be more or less as it [...] 
 
I meant to say "...more or less broken as it..."