Support » Plugin: Broken Link Checker » Config option for proxy

  • Resolved Dick Visser

    (@usrlocaldick)


    Hi

    We have a rather locked down environment where all outgoing HTTP/HTTPS traffic has to go through a proxy. This will only allow specific sites, such as wordpress.com and some plugin sites for updates (as well as OS specific URLs such as Ubuntu updates).
    The reason for this set-up is security, WordPress cannot get random content from the Internet.
    I had managed to open up the proxy set-up so that it is now possible to do HEAD requests to the entire Internet. HEAD request by definition will not have content, so no security risk here, but it will make the LinkChecker work.

    However, HTTPS doesn’t work because that needs to do a CONNECT first.
    But I had to configure sslbump, a MITM option on the proxy, in order to allow HEAD inside CONNECT. This breaks SSL verifiation which is bad.

    So I have now set up a second proxy port which can be used for the link checker.
    But at the moment it is not possible to configure the link checker to use a custom proxy address.

    Would it be possible to have a configuration option to override the default settings(‘WP_PROXY_HOST’ etc)?

    Many thanks

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/

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