[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Feature Requests-1968997 ] weblinkchecker should ignore 401 unauthorized

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Feature Requests item #1968997, was opened at 2008-05-21 20:14
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Submitted By: Daniel Barrett (djbarrett)
>Assigned to: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Summary: weblinkchecker should ignore 401 unauthorized

Initial Comment:
Please provide an option for weblinkchecker to ignore HTTP 401 (Unauthorized) errors.  Realistically, pywikipedia will not have the same authorization credentials as a "real" wiki user, especially in corporate environments.

Some data: In our corporate wiki, out of 1500 unreachable links, over 1300 were "error 401" because the sites require Windows authentication that pywikipedia does not have.


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>Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Date: 2008-05-22 20:10

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Okay, I added an -ignore: parameter in r5424. It can be added several
times, as you needed it. Tell me how it works ;)

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Comment By: Daniel Barrett (djbarrett)
Date: 2008-05-21 21:05

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Here's a patch. I am not a Python programmer, so there's probably a better
way to do this.  A better solution might be to ignore a set of error codes
provided by the caller, e.g.,

python weblinkchecker.py -ignorehttp "401,403,500"

File Added: weblinkchecker.py.diff

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