ignore filter not working?

[wummel]

Converted from SourceForge issue 2910588, submitted by aragonne

Hi there,

I ran linkchecker for a site and got a whole bunch of warnings about email links. The linkcheckerrc file has a filter in place to exclude these mailto: links but not sure why they're still being checked. I tried to look for documentation on linkchecker but could find not much info.

Here are the details of what I did:

1. Run script: ~/website/linkchecker/lto_UK/run_link_checker_stage:
   linkchecker http://stage.labtestsonline.org.uk
2. Linkchecker config: ~/.linkchecker/linkcheckerrc

[checking]
anchors=1
threads=5

[filtering]
ignore=
^mailto:
search/SearchForm

[output]
fileoutput=text,html

1. output: http://svu.vh.quinn.com/linkchecker/lto_UK/linkchecker-out_091206.html

Notice in #2 how I thought the the ignore filter that specifies to ignore links that begin with mailto: doesn't appear to be ignored when you view the output in #3.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here?

thanks!
Steve

[wummel]

Submitted by calvin

Linkchecker still checks the syntax of ignored URLs. A missing email-address in a mailto: link
is a syntax error, hence it is displayed even with the ignore=^mailto: configuration.

Reading the mailto rfc2368, it is syntactically allowed to have an empty email-address.
So I will downgrade the error about missing email-addresses to a warning in the next release.

Regards,
Bastian

[wummel]

Submitted by calvin

We believe that the issue you reported is fixed in the latest version of
linkchecker which can be found in the project's Git repository under:
https://linkchecker.git.sourceforge.net/

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