⚡ Fast, async, stream-based link checker written in Rust. Finds broken URLs and mail addresses inside Markdown, HTML, reStructuredText, websites and more!
A user was trying out lychee for NLnet and found that version 0.13 misreports many links.
E.g.
lychee https://nlnet.nl/thema/OpenDocumentFormat.html
Issues found in 1 input. Find details below.
[https://nlnet.nl/thema/OpenDocumentFormat.html]:
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/BinaryAnalysisFund.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Services+Applications.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/InternetInfrastructure.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [ERR] http://www.viewerjs.org/examples | Failed: Network error: The certificate was not trusted.
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/GetEduroam.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Deployability.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Decentralisedsolutions.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Conferences.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/NetworkApplications.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Applicationprotocols.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/EducationalPrograms.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/InternetHardeningFund.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Reportsandstudies.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/NGIZeroCore.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/NGIZeroDiscovery.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/InformationRetrieval.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Verticals+Search.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/User-operatedInternetFund.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/NGI0Entrust.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Measurement.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Middlewareandidentity.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [500] http://translate.org.za/ | Failed: Network error: Internal Server Error
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Networkinfrastructure.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Privacyandsecurity.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/CommunityPrograms.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/OperatingSystems.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/NGIAssure.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/DataandAI.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/OpenDocumentFormat.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Softwareengineering.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/Hardware.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/OpenData.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/NREN.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://nlnet.nl/NGIZeroPET.html | Failed: Network error: Not Found
🔍 113 Total (in 11s) ✅ 78 OK 🚫 34 Errors 💤 1 Excluded
Same issue here. I was excited about lychee at first but unfortunately it is ultimately unusable for me for this reason. Unfortunately I don't know any rust so I can't really offer help either :-/.
A user was trying out lychee for NLnet and found that version 0.13 misreports many links. E.g.
The errors are all from relative links.
It incorrectly strips away the path. E.g. instead of https://nlnet.nl/thema/BinaryAnalysisFund.html it detects https://nlnet.nl/BinaryAnalysisFund.html