feat: add user-agent when testing extension URLs#372
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This is to better identify the Mesamatrix script when it's crawling external websites such as khronos.org and vulkan.org. It also add a new page to explain what the bot does. Also closed a bracket in a string, in UrlCache.php.
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This PR adds a user agent when fetching the headers of the external URLs. This is to better identify the Mesamatrix script when it's crawling external websites such as khronos.org and vulkan.org. It also adds a new page to explain what the bot does.
I didn't know which string to chose as the standard seems pretty loose, so I went for
"Mesamatrix-LinkChecker/1.0 (+https://mesamatrix.net/bot.php)".By defining a context to send to
get_headers()I was able to improve the requests by defining theHEADmethod instead ofGETand reducing the timeout to 5 sec (instead of 60 sec)Also closed a bracket in a string, in
UrlCache.php.