Title: Works well, but not ideal
Last modified: June 26, 2022

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# Works well, but not ideal

 *  [yeoric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yeoric/)
 * (@yeoric)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unsatisfying/)
 * The link checker finds broken links and has many settings to exclude or mark 
   false-positives like blocked access (HTTP error 403/503). It does correctly check
   and resolve internal links (#anchorname) which is more than most checkers do.
 * One caveat (a big problem for me, but probably not for most other sites): The
   checker does not run from the environment I am logged in as, but seems to try
   to connect as an anonymous user. This means that posts/pages that require a login
   do show up as “404”s, i.e. broken links.
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by [yeoric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yeoric/).

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 *  Plugin Support [Patrick – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport12/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport12)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unsatisfying/#post-15764248)
 * Hi [@yeoric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yeoric/)
 * Sorry to hear you’re having those false positives.
 * Broken Link Checker will loop into the WordPress posts and do a request from 
   your server to the specific link, but unfortunately, some destinations will block
   the request ( cURL ), this happens on Amazon URLs for example.
 * When the site is blocked from the public the request also can return 503 or different
   status as this request will be blocked.
 * Could you please create a ticket [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/broken-link-checker/#new-topic-0](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/broken-link-checker/#new-topic-0)
   and we can take a closer look at this for you and hope to convert it into a 5-
   stars experience?
 * About the links,
 * > What is so difficult about checking links that no WP plugins seems to be up
   > to the task?
 * There are different reasons for a link verification to fail, the plugins will
   try to simulate a real user experience and make a cURL request to the link, but
   depending on the destination it can fail if the request is blocked or the site
   is not public.
 * Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

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