[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36638: Detect broken URLs in the editor

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#36638: Detect broken URLs in the editor
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 Reporter:  iseulde                         |       Owner:  azaozz
     Type:  task (blessed)                  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                          |   Milestone:  4.6
Component:  Editor                          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-unit-tests needs-testing  |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by rachelbaker):

 Replying to [comment:30 ocean90]:
 > Replying to [comment:28 azaozz]:
 >
 > > 2. Many web servers block the `WordPress` user agent for different
 reasons. We probably could use something else in the UA, but... Doesn't
 sound right.
 >
 > This is the first time I'm hearing this. :) Do you happen to know what
 the status code is? It's probably not 404.

 Medium.com returns a `403`.


 {{{
 $ curl -v --user-agent "WordPress" https://medium.com
 * Rebuilt URL to: https://medium.com/
 *   Trying 104.16.123.127...
 * Connected to medium.com (104.16.123.127) port 443 (#0)
 * TLS 1.2 connection using TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
 * Server certificate: medium.com
 * Server certificate: DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA
 * Server certificate: DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA
 > GET / HTTP/1.1
 > Host: medium.com
 > User-Agent: WordPress
 > Accept: */*
 >
 < HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
 < Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:16:39 GMT
 < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
 < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
 < Connection: keep-alive
 < Set-Cookie: __cfduid=daac0e730a603793f2b0f7c5577dbd7d71468973799;
 expires=Thu, 20-Jul-17 00:16:39 GMT; path=/; domain=.medium.com; HttpOnly
 < Cache-Control: max-age=15
 < Expires: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:16:54 GMT
 < X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
 < Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload
 < X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
 < Server: cloudflare-nginx
 < CF-RAY: 2c5239c8f7aa10e7-ORD
 }}}

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