Failure in CI: OSI website returns 403 (not a review)

[isabelizimm]

In #130 and other PRs, the link checker is failing with

ERROR: 1 dead links found!
[✖] https://opensource.org/licenses → Status: 403

but if you go to the https://opensource.org/licenses, the website is up and running. I'm not quite sure why it is returning an error, but it is worth looking into!

[lwasser]

Thank you @isabelizimm !! What we can do is have htmlproofer ignore 403 error codes. Sometimes websites are sensitive to being accessed by ci for whatever reason.

If you go to our package guide build you can see how to do it with html proofer. https://github.com/pyOpenSci/python-package-guide/blob/main/.github/workflows/build-book.yml I'm not at my computer now but hope there is a way to implement the same w the link checker we have here for markdown?

[lwasser]

ok i just looked into this i think we want to add a config.json file and

https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check#config-file-format and use this

"aliveStatusCodes": [200, 206]

to ignore whatever codes are being problematic. so in this case 403 codes i think we can mark as "alive" so the build doesn't error our.