Remote links all returned warnings when checked

da2x · da2x · commit c09c93cf7229 · 2015-05-19T13:27:49.000+02:00
Successes should return here too, would otherwise proceed down to
line 256 and produce a warnig.
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Features
 Bugfixes
 --------
 
+* All remotely checked links resulted in incorrect warnings (`nikola check -lr`)
 * Exclude `<meta content="noindex" name="robots">` from sitemaps
 * new_post paths are now relative to CWD (Issue #1325)
 
diff --git a/nikola/plugins/command/check.py b/nikola/plugins/command/check.py
@@ -218,10 +218,16 @@ def analyze(self, task, find_sources=False, check_remote=False):
                     if parsed.netloc == base_url.netloc:
                         continue
                     # Check the remote link works
-                    resp = requests.head(target)
+                    req_headers = {'User-Agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 (Nikola)'}  # I’m a real boy!
+                    resp = requests.head(target, headers=req_headers)
                     if resp.status_code > 399:  # Error
                         self.logger.warn("Broken link in {0}: {1} [Error {2}]".format(filename, target, resp.status_code))
                         continue
+                    elif resp.status_code <= 399:  # The address leads *somewhere* that is not an error
+                        self.logger.debug("Successfully checked remote link in {0}: {1} [HTTP: {2}]".format(filename, target, resp.status_code))
+                        continue
+                    self.logger.warn("Could not check remote link in {0}: {1} [Unknown problem]".format(filename, target))
+                    continue
 
                 if url_type == 'rel_path':
                     target_filename = os.path.abspath(
