Link checker and 128 links limit

[MatteoCorti]

Hi

the link checker has a limit of 128 links for a given target host. We have two large systems with a lot of related content and the limit is ridiculously low. Is there a way to remove this limitation? The majority of our links to the second system are then rendered as text ....

Matteo

[smacdonald2008]

Here is a good community article that talks about this, 

http://www.wemblog.com/2011/10/how-to-make-sure-that-links-are-always.html

However - it looks like the 128 limit is not configurable. 

[MatteoCorti]

I was aware of the article but the solution is not really a useful one:

• it requires a lot of work (adjusting the links)
• renders the link checker completely useless

The article is from 2011, in two years Adobe was not able to solve the issue?

[smacdonald2008]

From the Whats New AEM documentation -- this has not been updated. 

http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/release_notes/overview.html

If you consider this a bug, I recommend opening an AEM ticket:

http://helpx.adobe.com/marketing-cloud/experience-manager.html

[smacdonald2008]

If you do not want to use the Link checker -- another option that you have is to use the apache sling rewriter functionality. You can develop it to check each link:

http://sling.apache.org/site/output-rewriting-pipelines-orgapacheslingrewriter.html

Hope this helps. 

[MatteoCorti]

I always love this kind of ironic answer: "If I believe it'a bug" as it was a matter of opinion. How could one even suggest that it is normal to just consider 128 links and then consider the rest as invalid just like that.

But OK, I open a ticket and receive no useful answer as always ...

[Sham_HC · Accepted solution]

The implementation to make it configurable is complete & unfortunately did not make into 5.6.1. Will ship in next release. As scott recommended please file daycare with business impact.

[MatteoCorti]

Sham HC wrote...

The implementation to make it configurable is complete & unfortunately did not make into 5.6.1. Will ship in next release. As scott recommended please file daycare with business impact.

You marked it as solved but and you say that it will be configurable. How: will there be another limit? Can I just set it to "unlimited". Why was the limit implemented?

[MatteoCorti]

Will this be also back ported to 5.5? The version is still supported.

[Sham_HC]

Configure the limit to -1 for unlimted.  Some customer have internal policy for links not to exceed & hence made as configurable option. 

P.S:-    I am not moderator & do not have permission to set as solved myself.