Re: A way to find dead links for external pages

2015-12-29 Thread Adrien Beau
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Harry Metske wrote: > > We considered it a security risk and did not implement it. Having a server go blindly into user-specified URLs is indeed a huge security risk. Users could easily create a denial of service (listing hundreds of URLs) either for the target o

Re: A way to find dead links for external pages

2015-12-29 Thread Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez
Hi, we bundle, as an example, not intended for production use, a PingWeblogscomFilter [#1], which pings weblog.com on each page save (a much older, similar approach on [#2]). A plugin, performing similar functionality, could be easily made and placed on a protected wikipage, or better, perform the