Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> writes: >> Max Nikulin to emacs-orgmode. [PATCH] org-manual.org: Update links to >> MathJax docs. Sun, 3 Oct 2021 23:17:46 +0700. >> https://list.orgmode.org/sjcl3b$gsr$1...@ciao.gmane.io >> >> In the particular case of docs.mathjax.org I am unsure if mild >> preference of http: over https: is not a mistake in the server >> configuration. I do not mind "https:" there, any variant is better >> than the old broken link. > > Maybe, instead of repairing the links manually, we could think of some > code that would do this work periodically, and also check the health of > the links, running a url request on each link and returning a list of > broken links. I don't know if it is possible to do something like that > in Elisp, as I don't have much experience with web and link issues. I > think there are also external tools, like Selenium Web Driver, but my > experience with it is very limited (I use Selenium from time to time > when I want to take a screenshot of a web page).
This is a good idea. Selenium is probably an overkill since we should better not link JS-only websites from the manual anyway. What we can do instead is a make target that will use something like wget. Patches are welcome! -- Ihor Radchenko, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org/. Support Org development at https://liberapay.com/org-mode, or support my work at https://liberapay.com/yantar92
