Sean Hammond

Support monospaced font

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Alongside the existing bold, italic, underline and strikethrough. Monospaced is useful for code snippets for example. Thanks!

Add content-type support

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Allow the client site to (optionally) specify an expected Content-Type with each link. We can then assert that the Content-Type header is correct. We could also support parsing for certain...

Fail for really large responses

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I'm not sure what currently happens if the server sends a really large response. We should probably add a "too big" failed link check type. See here for details on...

Handle different link check failures differently

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We currently just try to catch any exception that we think `requests` might throw and put together a failed link check report (status and reason) in a generic way. It...

Add test for URLs with non-ASCII characters in them

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`requests.get(url=u"http://➡.ws/mobify")`

Test all sorts of HTTP responses

Set the `Accept-Content: gzip` header. `requests` should be able to decompress it.

For `https` URLs pass `vefiry=True` to `requests.get()` and catch `requests.exceptions.SSLError`

Retry failed requests a configurable number of times before reporting a broken link to the client site. See http://www.mobify.com/blog/http-requests-are-hard/ for how to do this with requests.

We should not check URLs which are internal IP addresses or localhost, just return a failed link check with reason "This is an internal address". `py2-ipaddress` is a library that...