When [Check Links with rel="nofollow"] is unchecked, relatives URLs (starting with "/") are still browsed

[mevb]

Hello,

First of all... ...nice Job !

Here is an example of link with relative URL that fails to be skipped when option [ Check Links with rel="nofollow" ] is disabled :

<a href="/some_path/some_page.html" rel="nofollow">Link Text</a>

This relative URL is interpreted by browsers as : "[ http: | https ]://[ current_page_domain ]/some_path/some_page.html"

Why Check-My-Links fails ?

Because it ignores [ Check Links with rel="nofollow" ] option for URLs which doesn't start with "http", so URLs starting with "/" are browsed anway !

Hope this would help,

Manuel

[nextofken]

This is also affecting our ability to use this tool. See screen shot, the Logout link (yellow arrow, hidden behind Link Results) is still being followed. You can see it in the console (highlighted) and it has the relative link with nofollow. Once that link is checked all subsequent links 'pass' because they are actually redirecting to the login page.

Love the tool otherwise, it took us weeks to get selenium to perform this same function correctly and I had been hoping to use your plugin instead as it was a lot more light weight than the similar selenium implementation (also anyone on the team can use your plugin not just the techies). Any chance for a bug fix / update soon? Appreciate it.