Not needed since all content is now being decoded on retrieval.
Added by:
a6643034 ("Python3: decode parts before submitting them to urllib.quote()", 2018-01-05)
UrlBase has been modified as follows:
- the "data" variable now holds bytes
- decoded content is stored in a new variable "text"
- functionality from get_content() has been split out into
get_raw_content() which returns "data" and download_content() which
calls read_content() and sets the download related variables.
This allows for subclasses to do their own decoding and parsers to
use bytes.
newer requests do not expose the internal SSL socket object so we
cannot verify certificates. there was work to allow custom
verification routines which we could use, but this never finished:
https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/pull/257
so right now, just treat missing socket information as if the cert was
missing.
Closes: #76
While this flag can be abused, it seems to me like a legitimate use
case that you want to check a fairly small document for mistakes,
which includes references to a website which has a robots.txt that
denies all robots. It turns out that most websites do *not* add a
permission for LinkCheck to use their site, and some sites, like the
Debian BTS for example, are very hostile with bots in general.
Between me using linkcheck and me using my web browser to check those
links one by one, there is not a big difference. In fact, using
linkcheck may be *better* for the website because it will use HEAD
requests instead of a GET, and will not fetch all page elements
(javascript, images, etc) which can often be fairly big.
Besides, hostile users will patch the software themselves: it took me
only a few minutes to disable the check, and a few more to make that
into a proper patch.
By forcing robots.txt without any other option, we are hurting our
good users and not keeping hostile users from doing harm.
The patch is still incomplete, but works. It lacks: documentation and
unit tests.
Closes: #508
