[Requirement] Links must actually go to an existing url

[ferventcoder]

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[mkevenaar]

I would suggest that the package validator requires that all URLs in the nuspec file (e.g. docsUrl, mailinglistUrl) result in a valid HTTP status (2xx, 3xx). A 500 might be considered as a warning, as there could be something wrong with the remote server. Take a look at this page for more status codes.

[mkevenaar]

@gep13 the changes you have merged do not validate URL inside markdown fields. Do you still want that?

[gep13]

@mkevenaar yes, I think that would make sense.

[mkevenaar]

@gep13 I have opened #196 for this.

[pauby]

While I was putting together chocochecks I came across issues where valid URL's were actually being flagged as 404's. They work fine in the browser but not using, in my case, Invoke-WebRequest.

What reminded me to come and post this here was this in Gitter.

Unfoirtunately, I don't have an answer for you as I spend a small amount of time looking at it with no result. I haven't had any further time looking at it. So this is more of an FYI / I've seen this issue.