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daniel.holmes

28 May, 2010 02:01 PM

We are currently on Cascade Server 6.4 (and started after the 6.0 release). One of the things in my "todo pile" is getting the external link checking working. I'm at a loss. Cascade is on a linux server (RHEL) , and I can use links or lynx to browse to a website from the server, but if that site's URL is used in a page, the external link check just times out.

Has anyone gotten the external link checker working? If it "just works" please let me know. But, if there's a trick I'd love to hear that too.

It feels like a "firewall" kind of thing, but like I said, I can browse from the server. Did I miss doing something in my tomcat setup to give it permission?

Thanks all,
Dan

1. 1 Posted by Bradley Wagner on 28 May, 2010 02:16 PM

   

   The link checker uses HTTP Head requests to verify the validity of external links. From a Linux machine terminal with the cURL utility installed, try:
   

   curl -i -I <url>
   

   and make sure you get 200 OK response code.

   Are you definitely getting a link check timeout? If so, also try upping the "External Link Check Timeout" System Preference

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2. Bradley Wagner closed this discussion on 28 May, 2010 02:16 PM.

3. daniel.holmes re-opened this discussion on 28 May, 2010 02:23 PM

4. 2 Posted by daniel.holmes on 28 May, 2010 02:23 PM

   

   /me smacks head.

   It was the timeout. 1s just wasn't enough for a lot of the pages they are linking to.

   Upped to 10s and works fine.

   I just felt my inner-sense of awesomeness drop by 1.

   Thanks!

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