Filter 403 Forbidden errors

Can there please be a fix, a setting or filter to not report “403 Forbidden errors” as broken links (for local)?

There are more and more websites that block your link checks and your plugin reports them all as broken while they actually work. I understand that the plugin can’t tell if a link is broken or not when the link checker is being blocked, but in that case it shouldn’t be reported as broken.

I know I can mark them as ‘not broken’, but for some reason, when the same link is checked again, it is also reported as broken again.

Instead I suggest:

• Best to fix the issue by better mimicking a real browser
• Have a setting to filter ‘broken’ link reports by server status codes and to exclude them from the email reports.

I have searched the support posts and this is being reported multiple times over the past few years. Can you please do something about it? Thanks!

Log: === HTTP code: 403 === Response headers

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Cache-Control: no-store, must-revalidate, no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 244
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Request headers

GET /this-is-the-slug HTTP/1.1
Host: externaldomain.nl
User-Agent: WPMU DEV Broken Link Checker Local Engine
Accept: /
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, br
Referer: https://www.mydomain.nl
Connection: close
Range: bytes=0-2048 Response HTML

Request RejectedThe requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator.

Your support ID is: <5782400494749519032>