[MJAVADOC-607] followLinks fix to get redirect target breaks for certain sites

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1, 3.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0
• Labels: up-for-grabs
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Michiel Hendriks
• Created: 02/Jun/19 21:21
• Updated: 28/Jul/19 19:16
• Resolved: 28/Jul/19 18:52

Description

The followLinks fix from MJAVADOC-427 breaks links which are valid, but do not produce a 200 or 3xx HTTP response on the base URL.

For example to link to javadoc hosted by javadoc.io you would use the link:

https://static.javadoc.io/org.apache.maven.plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/3.1.0

As this is hosted on S3 it returns a 403, but the package-list does given a 200:

https://static.javadoc.io/org.apache.maven.plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/3.1.0/package-list

With version 3.0.0 these links work correctly.

 

It might be better to check for redirect targets by including the /package-list part in the URL to test.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #28