Nearly 100% false positives?

  • Running this plugin on WPEngine, so perhaps that has something to do with the issue — however, when we scan we get nearly 100% of all links on the site showing with some sort of error. MANY of them show as 429 too many requests, which indicates that this plugin is polling links too quickly (especially if they’re internal.. i think I basically just DDoS’d myself!)

    Any ideas?

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  • Plugin Author Bob Vandevliet

    (@bvandevliet)

    Hi Grex,

    Thanks for using Link Finder! You’re probably right about DDoS’ing yourself. This is an issue with this plugin that it makes many requests to and from the hosting server and it is not ideal I must say. I came to this solution to make the requests to come from a consistent source no matter from what machine or location you are logged in to your WordPress website. But since it’s a zero-monitoring and zero-logging plugin, it needs to check all hyperlinks at once, and that’s a problem for larger websites, I must admit.

    A few improvements that I can think of are:
    * To add an option to set a delay between the requests, i.e. limit the amount of requests per time interval, while this improves reliability, it will increase scanning time.
    * To add an option to choose whether the requests should be made by the hosting server (current situation) or by the browser, the latter may prevent the “429” issues and avoids the need for request delay, but the requests in that case are made by the browser where Link Finder is running.

    I will add the above in my backlog, but honestly I’m quite busy at the moment so I can’t promise anything about when it will be implemented and released.

    Best regards,
    Bob

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