link checker showing many broken links to www.adobe.com

[aemanonymous]

Any idea why Link checker service on AEM 6.2 publish instance is showing broken links for the following urls. How will I get to know how these URL are invoked. This happens with only one of the instance and not for other publish instance. This is on a dev environment.

1. "http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm",
2. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_activation",
3. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_analytics",
4. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_audiencemanager",
5. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_campaign",
6. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_exchange",
7. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_experiencemanager",
8. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_mediaoptimizer",
9. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_mobile",
10. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_others",
11. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_primetime",
12. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_profiles",
13. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_social",
14. "http://www.adobe.com/go/aem6_2_target",
15. "http://www.adobe.com/go/marketingcloud_privacy",
16. "http://www.adobe.com/go/marketingcloud_terms_of_use",
17. "https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/home/",

[smacdonald2008]

So you have links to Adobe in your content and you follow this: 

https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/administer/operations/external-link-checker.html

and you are getting back a report of broken links that do work.

[kautuk_sahni · Accepted solution]

Reference post for you:

Link:- http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manage...

    Consider using Groovy console to crawl over the /content/your_site looking for strings starting with /content.

    Then use resourceResolver to check if the found path exists. Sample script implementing this algorithm can be found here.

    Link:- https://github.com/Citytechinc/cq-groovy-console [Groovy Tool]

    Link:- https://gist.github.com/trekawek/72b3515a6641ca5f4b29 [Groovy Script]

~kautuk