Surfaced by the broken-urls label on #653, which re-checked pre-existing URLs in files that PR touched for unrelated reasons.
The problem
The entire downloads.support.alphatheta.com/manuals/dj-effectors/ path is gone. Every link under it 404s, including with the ?page= fragment removed, so this is not a deep-link problem — the host no longer serves that tree.
| Entry |
Dead URL |
pioneer-dj-efx-1000 |
.../EFX-1000/EFX-1000_DRB1368_manual?page=28 |
pioneer-dj-efx-500 |
.../EFX-500/EFX-500_DRB1236_manual?page=26 |
pioneer-dj-efx-500-r |
.../EFX-500/EFX-500_DRB1236_manual?page=26 |
pioneer-dj-rmx-1000 |
.../RMX-1000/RMX-1000_DRB1587D_manual?page=25 |
pioneer-dj-rmx-1000-m |
.../RMX-1000/RMX-1000_DRB1587D_manual?page=24 |
pioneer-dj-rmx-1000-w |
.../RMX-1000/RMX-1000_DRB1587D_manual?page=24 |
pioneer-dj-rmx-500 |
.../RMX-500/RMX-500_DRH1251A_quickstart-manual?page=14 |
Verified with a browser User-Agent, so this is real rot rather than bot-blocking.
Fix
Find the manuals' new home on AlphaTheta's support site and repoint, or drop the links entries if no replacement exists. The support.alphatheta.com/products/… links on the same entries are healthy (they return 200 to a browser) and should stay.
Not part of this
validate-urls also reported 10 findings on these same files that are false positives — https://tascam.com/us/product/ta-1vp and five support.alphatheta.com/products/… URLs all return 200 to a browser User-Agent but 403/404 to the checker. That is a separate concern about the checker rather than the data, noted in #653's comment thread; worth its own issue if the noise rate stays this high.
Surfaced by the
broken-urlslabel on #653, which re-checked pre-existing URLs in files that PR touched for unrelated reasons.The problem
The entire
downloads.support.alphatheta.com/manuals/dj-effectors/path is gone. Every link under it 404s, including with the?page=fragment removed, so this is not a deep-link problem — the host no longer serves that tree.pioneer-dj-efx-1000.../EFX-1000/EFX-1000_DRB1368_manual?page=28pioneer-dj-efx-500.../EFX-500/EFX-500_DRB1236_manual?page=26pioneer-dj-efx-500-r.../EFX-500/EFX-500_DRB1236_manual?page=26pioneer-dj-rmx-1000.../RMX-1000/RMX-1000_DRB1587D_manual?page=25pioneer-dj-rmx-1000-m.../RMX-1000/RMX-1000_DRB1587D_manual?page=24pioneer-dj-rmx-1000-w.../RMX-1000/RMX-1000_DRB1587D_manual?page=24pioneer-dj-rmx-500.../RMX-500/RMX-500_DRH1251A_quickstart-manual?page=14Verified with a browser User-Agent, so this is real rot rather than bot-blocking.
Fix
Find the manuals' new home on AlphaTheta's support site and repoint, or drop the
linksentries if no replacement exists. Thesupport.alphatheta.com/products/…links on the same entries are healthy (they return 200 to a browser) and should stay.Not part of this
validate-urlsalso reported 10 findings on these same files that are false positives —https://tascam.com/us/product/ta-1vpand fivesupport.alphatheta.com/products/…URLs all return 200 to a browser User-Agent but 403/404 to the checker. That is a separate concern about the checker rather than the data, noted in #653's comment thread; worth its own issue if the noise rate stays this high.