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Validation: perform link checking #202

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fingolfin opened this issue Mar 19, 2022 · 0 comments

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fingolfin commented Mar 19, 2022 •

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... at the very least for "local" links. That is, look for <a href="HREF"> elements, and perform some checks on the HREF value:

it should start either with http:// or https:// or mailto:,
it must not start with file:// nor with /
for relative paths, the referenced file should exist
bonus points for checking that the link does not extend outside the GAP directory (so no ../../../../../../etc/passwd or ../../../pkg/../../../../etc/passwd or other similar nonsense)
more bonus points if external links are also checked, but I am not sure that's feasible, soo...

There are probably existing tools out there that we can use for this. E.g. here is one written in Python 3: https://linkchecker.github.io/linkchecker/

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