HTML-Proofer should follow clientside redirects

[gjtorikian]

As an option, if possible. This would involve GETing the page, parsing it with Nokogiri, and following any redirect info. This would be super useful for Jekyll sites, at the cost of slowing the run down.

[fulldecent]

To be clear, are we only talking about finding

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=otherPage.html" />

And interpreting that the same as

<a href="otherPage.html">.</a>

[gjtorikian]

No, it would mean finding

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=otherPage.html" />

And then following otherPage.html and checking those links.

I actually no longer thing this is within the project's scope (a lot changes in two years) since I don't want it to be a general link crawler. Plus a directory that's filled with files should already find otherPage.html so I'm not really sure what I was thinking here.