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There are sites that are sending a redirect with a cookie if the request does not have one, for examlpe Twitter started doing this, so those links are now marked as broken even if they are not:

echo 'https://twitter.com' |  markdown-link-check

You can also verify this with curl, this should fail:

curl --verbose --location 'https://twitter.com'

But if you enable cookies, it works:

curl --verbose --location --cookie --junk-session-cookies 'https://twitter.com'

Workaround: sending some static cookies in the headers but having support for this would be nice, since sites can change the cookies they mandate any time. See: https://github.com/jonatan-ivanov/develotters-blog/commit/727cfd5a7f200014ba6cae9b756a6fcb329fd4de

I have stopped working on this action. Please try https://github.com/UmbrellaDocs/linkspector and https://github.com/UmbrellaDocs/action-linkspector instead.

Thank for the answer. Please consider the followings:

• Moving this repo to the new project if it does not have this capability already
• Archiving this repo and calling out in the readme that it is unmaintained
• Removing it from the GitHub Actions Marketplace

Thank you @jonatan-ivanov I'll plan that.