Actions broken-link.yml fails: too many redirects

[raffaem]

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Bug description

Actions broken-link.yml fails

How to reproduce the bug

Put a link to https://www.kth.se/profile/andbr in some post. For example, I put it here.

Error messages and logs

[ERR] https://www.kth.se/profile/andbr | Failed: Too many redirects: error following redirect for url (https://www.kth.se/files/auth/silent/bounce?nextUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kth.se%2Fprofile%2Fandbr): too many redirects

See here for full log.

What operating system are you using?

Linux

Where are you seeing the problem on?

Deployed site

More info

No response

[george-gca]

As you can see in the error message, it states:

Failed: Too many redirects: error following redirect for url (https://www.kth.se/files/auth/silent/bounce?nextUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kth.se%2Fprofile%2Fandbr): too many redirects

Your page for some reason redirects too many times. The broken links workflow uses lychee-action, which in turn uses lychee to check for broken links. By default it allows up to 5 redirects, as can be seen in lychee docs. Possible solutions would be:

1. add max-redirects param in your workflow, increasing this number above 5
2. add another --exclude-path with the path to your page that is causing trouble
3. disable this action

[raffaem]

Thanks for the answer.

I opened an issue at lychee since also using --max-redirects 100 give rise to the same error.

[raffaem]

@george-gca It's bot detection which can be avoid by setting an user agent for lychee. See lycheeverse/lychee#1411 (comment).

Should we set a default user agent for lychee?

[george-gca]

I think it is a good idea. Can you send a PR for this?