Markdown output less helpful than it used to be

[khemarato]

Back in v1.0.8, the markdown output would include the HTTP code and description of the problem for broken links:

✗ [503] http://monastic-asia.wikidot.com/ | Network error: Service Unavailable
⧖ [TIMEOUT] http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/ | Timeout
✗ [404] https://journals.equinoxpub.com/article/view/19524 | Network error: Not Found
✗ [403] https://www.researchgate.net/some.pdf | Network error: Forbidden

This was extremely helpful for me in identifying which errors were likely genuine (e.g. 404, 503...) and which likely transitory (e.g. 403, TIMEOUT, etc).

The new markdown output just says Failed: Network error for everything, which is less helpful.

[mre]

Yes, this is a regression from refactoring and will be fixed with the next lychee release (0.10.1). See https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/issues/672.

[mre]

Should be fixed in master now.

[mre]

A fix was released in v1.5.1. @buddhist-uni can you report back if that resolved the problem so that I can close this issue? 🙏

[khemarato]

They now say, e.g.,

Failed: Network error (status code: 503)

which is good enough for me most of the time, but without the description I may have to Google the status code if something rare like a 425 comes up. 🤷 So, still not as helpful as before, but probably good enough :) Feel free to close, if you like!

[mre]

You are right. We should add back that information.

[tooomm]

I mentioned this in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/issues/694 as well.

The Network error: Not Found gives more information vs. Failed: Network error as well and explains the code a bit better.

[mre]

@buddhist-uni @tooomm, I created https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/pull/729 if you want to check the output and tell me if it looks good to you.

[mre]

I expect this to be resolved with the latest updates. Feel free to reopen if this is not the case.