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Friday, November 17, 2017 5:12 AM

Hi All,

I am getting below errors when i check the broken links for my site.

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URL

999 Non-standard
https://www.linkedin.com/compan/companyname

999 Non-standard
https://www.linkedin.com/compan/companyname

can any one help me?

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Monday, November 20, 2017 2:38 AM

Hi    Jithendar,

>>I am getting below errors when i check the broken links for my site.

As far as I know, the error 999 don't exist in a W3C Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1, this non-standard code is returned by some sites (e.g. linkedin) which do not permit scanning.

As mention here, LinkedIn do not allow direct access. They have blacklisted Heroku's IP address and the only way to access the data is to use their APIs.

Developer Support:

You can go to the LinkedIn Help Forum for getting suitable help.

Welcome to the LinkedIn Help Forum:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/forum?page_key=hc_home&path=%2Fhelp%2Flinkedin&referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fhelp%2Flinkedin%3Ftrk%3D404_page

If you have any question about your site, please go to the ASP.NET forum for suitable help.
 

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Monday, November 27, 2017 8:26 AM

we are using a hard coded href link as  https://www.linkedin.com/compan/companyname. 

we can access the link without any issues. but only when we check through broken links tool its giving as 999 non standard error.

Regards,

Jithendar.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 6:01 AM

Hi Jiyhendar Bathini,

Thank you for feedback.

Based on my search, the broken links tool is Broken Link Checker. Is it right? 

Based on my search, it caused by not limited to BLC, but any attempt to check too much/too fast on LinkedIn. You could add linkedin.com to the exclusion list in Settings -> Link Checker -> Which Links To Check to fix the issue.

Here are the similar threads for your reference.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-linkedin-links-marked-as-brokenfor-months/

https://moz.com/community/q/linkedin-999-http-errors

If you have something more about this issue, you could post your issues in GitHub.

https://github.com/ManageWP/broken-link-checker/issues

Best Regards,

Wendy

MSDN Community Support
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