Multiple linked external blog posts do not display

[Mike McCready]

Subject

Examples > Media > Blogs

Description

Examples > Media > Blogs contains links to external blog posts which no longer display the original content. Instead, error messages are displayed.

There are currently 49 problematic links in the blog post list, for example:

• Sanity Check Script - Error 404 Page not found
• My Thoughts on Cypress.io - NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
• Running Cypress tests with TestContainers for a Spring Boot with Thymeleaf application - wimdeblauwe.wordpress.com is no longer available. The authors have deleted this site
• FEXCO Technology Solutions - Error 403 - This web app is stopped.
• Testing React app with Cypress - Web server is down Error code 521

Steps to reproduce

Go to DeadLinkChecker.com and check the single webpage https://docs.cypress.io/examples/media/blogs-media

Suggestion

Review the problematic links in Examples > Media > Blogs and remove those which are permanently failing.

[Jennifer Shehane]

@MikeMcC399 We used to test for broken links but it became prohibitively slow and had a lot of false negatives with GitHub links.

[Mike McCready]

There is one link on Examples > Media > Blogs that is not fixed.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ produces an error on LinkedIn.

cypress-documentation/src/data/blogs.json

Lines 540 to 548 in 0554c50

 { 
   "title": "Reliable test automation with Cypress.io", 
   "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reliable-test-automation-cypressio-abdi-saeed/", 
   "sourceName": "LinkedIn", 
   "sourceUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/", 
   "author": "Abdi Saeed", 
   "date": "Jun 17, 2019", 
   "img": "/img/examples/reliable-test-automation-cypress.png" 
 },