Background
While reading the project's documentation, I noticed the following statement in the README.adoc under the "Broken HTTP Links" section:
"Localhost or numerical IP addresses are currently NOT marked as suspicious. Please comment in case you have additional requirements."
Problem
In production documentation or public-facing HTML pages, links pointing to localhost or raw numerical IP addresses are almost always accidental mistakes (e.g., a developer copying a local test link). If a generated document contains <a href="http://localhost:8080/guide">, it will be a broken link for the final end-user, but currently, HTML Sanity Check might not explicitly flag it as a bad practice or warning.
Background
While reading the project's documentation, I noticed the following statement in the
README.adocunder the "Broken HTTP Links" section:Problem
In production documentation or public-facing HTML pages, links pointing to
localhostor raw numerical IP addresses are almost always accidental mistakes (e.g., a developer copying a local test link). If a generated document contains<a href="http://localhost:8080/guide">, it will be a broken link for the final end-user, but currently, HTML Sanity Check might not explicitly flag it as a bad practice or warning.