Status: 403 Forbidden for link in markdown link check github actions, and 200 Ok locally

[iamtodor]

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While using GitHub actions I get the error.

ERROR: 1 dead links found!
[✖] https://siiami.pl/ → Status: 403

The complete log is here https://github.com/iamtodor/jdg/runs/7010592789?check_suite_focus=true

However, if I run the same command locally find . -name '*.md' -not -path './node_modules/*' -exec markdown-link-check '{}' --config .github/workflows/markdown_link_check_config.json -v ';'

The result is 200:

[✓] https://siiami.pl/ → Status: 200

Here are some curl outputs

>>> curl -I https://siiami.pl
HTTP/2 301
server: nginx
date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:00:01 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length: 0
location: https://www.siiami.pl/
x-sucuri-id: 14015
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-options: nosniff
content-security-policy: upgrade-insecure-requests;
x-redirect-by: WordPress
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-sucuri-cache: HIT

>>> curl -v https://siiami.pl -o /dev/null
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0*   Trying 192.124.249.65:443...
* Connected to siiami.pl (192.124.249.65) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*  CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
*  CApath: none
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
} [314 bytes data]
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
{ [122 bytes data]
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
{ [19 bytes data]
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
{ [2929 bytes data]
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
{ [264 bytes data]
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
{ [52 bytes data]
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
} [52 bytes data]
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=siiami.pl
*  start date: Apr  1 15:40:32 2022 GMT
*  expire date: Apr  1 15:40:32 2023 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "siiami.pl" matched cert's "siiami.pl"
*  issuer: C=US; ST=Arizona; L=Scottsdale; O=GoDaddy.com, Inc.; OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/; CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multiplexing
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x7fc86c80b600)
> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: siiami.pl
> user-agent: curl/7.79.1
> accept: */*
>
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 128)!
< HTTP/2 301
< server: nginx
< date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:00:43 GMT
< content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< content-length: 0
< location: https://www.siiami.pl/
< x-sucuri-id: 14015
< x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
< x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
< x-content-type-options: nosniff
< content-security-policy: upgrade-insecure-requests;
< x-redirect-by: WordPress
< vary: Accept-Encoding
< x-sucuri-cache: HIT
<
{ [0 bytes data]
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
* Connection #0 to host siiami.pl left intact

What can be the cause of such behavior? And how can it be fixed to getting 200 Ok by markdown link check from that link?

[WyriHaximus]

Seeing exactly the same issue, but in my case @github is throwing the 403 on https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request

[iamtodor]

@WyriHaximus I had the same issue with GitHub, but it is locally and in GitHub actions. Take a look at this solution https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check/issues/201#issuecomment-1110242146 But with site https://siiami.pl/, the link check works fine locally

[iamtodor]

@gaurav-nelson same applies to the link https://aplikacja.ceidg.gov.pl/ceidg/ceidg.public.ui/search.aspx locally - no issues, on GitHub actions - link is dead

[✖] https://aplikacja.ceidg.gov.pl/ceidg/ceidg.public.ui/search.aspx → Status: 0 Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/markdown-link-check/node_modules/request/request.js:816:19)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:641:28)
    at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:527:28)
    at TLSSocket.emitRequestTimeout (node:_http_client:771:9)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:641:28)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:539:35)
    at TLSSocket.Socket._onTimeout (node:net:516:8)
    at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:559:17)
    at processTimers (node:internal/timers:502:7) {
  code: 'ESOCKETTIMEDOUT',
  connect: false
}

[WyriHaximus]

@WyriHaximus I had the same issue with GitHub, but it is locally and in GitHub actions. Take a look at this solution tcort/markdown-link-check#201 (comment) But with site https://siiami.pl/, the link check works fine locally

@iamtodor That works perfectly, think you!

[WyriHaximus]

@gaurav-nelson same applies to the link https://aplikacja.ceidg.gov.pl/ceidg/ceidg.public.ui/search.aspx locally - no issues, on GitHub actions - link is dead

[✖] https://aplikacja.ceidg.gov.pl/ceidg/ceidg.public.ui/search.aspx → Status: 0 Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/markdown-link-check/node_modules/request/request.js:816:19)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:641:28)
    at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:527:28)
    at TLSSocket.emitRequestTimeout (node:_http_client:771:9)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:641:28)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:539:35)
    at TLSSocket.Socket._onTimeout (node:net:516:8)
    at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:559:17)
    at processTimers (node:internal/timers:502:7) {
  code: 'ESOCKETTIMEDOUT',
  connect: false
}

Is it just that URL, or also other pages on that subdomain? ESOCKETTIMEOUT seems to bit low-level to me to not be firewall or WAP related

[and-hus]

I am running into the same issue for a link to github docs

[sdruskat]

Having the same issue with anything on https://docs.github.com/, there's a related issue at https://github.com/github/docs/issues/17358. The internal investigation seems to be ongoing 🤷. However, given the reports here for other URLs, I'm hazarding a guess that this isn't necessarily a GitHub Docs issue, but perhaps an issue here?