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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon hiviah

Allow certain failures for 'from' part of rewrite

Open jsha opened this issue 9 years ago • 1 comments

Right now the checker fetches both the HTTP version and the rewritten HTTPS version of a URL, and fails if either one fails.

There are a small number of cases in which we don't mind if the HTTP version fails. Specifically, a connection failure or timeout on the HTTP version are more or less okay. These failures prevent us from measuring a delta between the HTTP and HTTPS versions, but as long as the rule is simple (rewrite everything on HTTP to the same path on HTTPS), it's okay to assume resources are equivalent.

jsha avatar Mar 23 '15 22:03 jsha

Note: Ideally we would allow this type of failure only for simple targets (i.e. those specified using the <simpletarget ... /> tag), but that is not yet implemented.

jsha avatar Mar 23 '15 22:03 jsha