Web links pointing to Wikipedia are refused
Reported by Walter McGinnis | November 25th, 2010 @ 02:17 PM
For the back story on this ticket see http://kete.lighthouseapp.com/projects/14288/tickets/281, the original Kete project ticket.
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Walter McGinnis February 4th, 2011 @ 05:34 PM
I made another attempt at this by replacing the URI library requirement with Addressable::URI (http://addressable.rubyforge.org/) to gain better unicode character handling.
This did add unicode URI support without HTTP escaping (nice to have feature), but didn't solve the problem with Wikipedia.
At this point, I'm planning on joining Wikipedia's support mailinglist for such issues and see if they can help debug why things are being refused.
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Walter McGinnis August 25th, 2012 @ 08:08 AM
@anthonyogden what do you mean?
This is a part of an open source project. So if you mean, "shouldn't this issue be private?", then the answer is no. It's public on purpose.
Are you referring to the issue specifics, I.e. can you reproduce the specifics of the issue with the software, it's a bit of a flickering one. I haven't tested it recently.
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Ruby gem for checking whether a URL responds to a Head request (will also attempt variants, too) as a validation step.
HTTP URL Validation Plugin Improved
by Erik Gregg, Walter McGinnis, Kieran Pilkington
This work is based on Erik's work, but mainly refined for the Kete application (http://kete.net.nz).
Inspired by HTTP URL Validation Plugin by C. Carneiro Jr.
Walter McGinnis