Title: False Positives on SSL
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# False Positives on SSL

 *  [Me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberws/)
 * (@cyberws)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positives-on-ssl/)
 * Hello,
 * I have a site that is all https and now the plugin is reporting broken images
   and URLs to the site when they work. So I am reaching out for your thoughts?
 * Thanks!
 * Respectfully,
 * Jeremy
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberws/)
 * (@cyberws)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positives-on-ssl/#post-6461187)
 * I may have figured this out and will post back shortly. Thanks!
 *  [Forest Skills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forest-skills/)
 * (@forest-skills)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positives-on-ssl/#post-6461440)
 * I’ve just deactivated the plugin due to almost every working link being reported
   a broken (98% false positives).
 * 🙁
 *  [Nemo_bis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nemo_bis/)
 * (@nemo_bis)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positives-on-ssl/#post-6461480)
 * I too have problems with HTTPS-only websites.
    * 403 for [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/FAQ](http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/FAQ)(
   which actually HTTP 301-redirects to the HTTPS equivalent) * 999 for some other
   sites * 404 for HSTS sites such as Wikimedia, e.g. [http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Aiuto:Fonte](http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Aiuto:Fonte)
 * (Feel free to ask me a patch if you want, but tell me what license the code uses
   as I couldn’t find it.)
 *  Thread Starter [Me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberws/)
 * (@cyberws)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positives-on-ssl/#post-6461490)
 * The plugin seems to be hit and miss with https links. In fact I am thinking of
   abandoning it.
 *  [jtracy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jtracy/)
 * (@jtracy)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positives-on-ssl/#post-6461491)
 * Same problem – https Website shows a bunch of false positives, particularly related
   to images. Will be uninstalling.
 *  [gmcinnes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmcinnes/)
 * (@gmcinnes)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positives-on-ssl/#post-6461492)
 * Hi:
 * Please see [this thread](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-report-solution-to-416-errors-502-errors-and-other-errors-with-https).
 * If you could post a reply there and help me convince the authors to apply a patch,
   that would be awesome.
 * Thanks!

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