Link checker not following redirects

[shakey]

I'm not sure if this has already been pointed out or not, but...

It appears that the link checker is not following redirects when checking sites.

E.g. Site is added to Linkspun as http://www.mypornsite.com but when you actually visit it in a browser it redirects to http://mypornsite.com or vice versa, non-www to www.

The link checker previously seemed to handle this fine, but it appears that it's suddenly stopped as I've just got a bunch of link errors (where links are actually up) and this seems to be the one thing they have in common.

[drocd]

Can you please send some examples of this, because I believe it's working correctly.

[shakey]

Just checked again and it appears to be working fine again.

Maybe just a temporary glitch :/

[jdoughs]

Im not sure I follow here but, if you have a link trying to be spidered that is supposed to be on www.domain.com, but you have redirects to domain.com that trade will not verify (and never has).


www and no www are 2 separate pages, the script will not accept a link on domain.com if it is looking for a link on www.domain.com because they are separate pages.

If we allowed pages to be redirected it would be far to easy to cheat. (ie putting up a page on some random site and redirecting all my trades to be displayed there.

It just poses to many problems. And the average user wants the link on the page he chose, not some other page on the domain. (not that that's what you were doing anyways, but the principal remains)

[redwhiteandblue]

Im not sure I follow here but, if you have a link trying to be spidered that is supposed to be on http://www.domain.com, but you have redirects to domain.com that trade will not verify (and never has).


www and no www are 2 separate pages, the script will not accept a link on domain.com if it is looking for a link on http://www.domain.com because they are separate pages.

If we allowed pages to be redirected it would be far to easy to cheat. (ie putting up a page on some random site and redirecting all my trades to be displayed there.

It just poses to many problems. And the average user wants the link on the page he chose, not some other page on the domain. (not that that's what you were doing anyways, but the principal remains)

I completely agree. Why would you add the domain as the non-www on linkspun if it redirets to the www version? I'm not sure if it applies to this particular type of redirect, but Google have stated that 301 redirects do not pass 100% of PR so you should avoid redirects in your hardlinks anyway.