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Link validation job fails for invalid links with special characters

Found in

EPiServer.CMS.Core 11.1.0

Fixed in

EPiServer.CMS.Core 11.10.5

(Or a related package)

Created

Oct 03, 2018

Updated

Oct 12, 2018

Area

CMS Core

State

Closed, Fixed and tested

Description

Steps to reproduce

  1. Link to //#_ftn1.
  2. Run Link Validation job.

Expected:
Link is ignored

Actual:
Job stops with exception

WORKAROUND: Remove invalid URL from tblSoftLink

2018-09-27 00:00:17,640 [1429] ERROR EPiServer.DataAbstraction.ScheduledJob: Job EPiServer.LinkAnalyzer.LinkValidationJob failed for the job 'Koblingsvalidering' with jobId ='6bce1827-f306-476a-b766-2b35838f6ea0'
System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.
at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
at System.Uri..ctor(Uri baseUri, Uri relativeUri)
at EPiServer.Web.UriUtil.IsStringWellFormedUri(String uriString)
at EPiServer.LinkAnalyzer.Internal.LinkValidationRunner.CheckAndUpdateStatus(SoftLink link)
at EPiServer.LinkAnalyzer.Internal.LinkValidationRunner.CheckAndUpdateStatus(IEnumerable`1 softLinks)
at EPiServer.LinkAnalyzer.Internal.LinkValidationRunner.ValidateLinks()
at EPiServer.Scheduler.Internal.DefaultScheduledJobExecutor.<Execute>d__31.MoveNext()
System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.
at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
at System.Uri..ctor(Uri baseUri, Uri relativeUri)
at EPiServer.Web.UriUtil.IsStringWellFormedUri(String uriString)
at EPiServer.LinkAnalyzer.Internal.LinkValidationRunner.CheckAndUpdateStatus(SoftLink link)
at EPiServer.LinkAnalyzer.Internal.LinkValidationRunner.CheckAndUpdateStatus(IEnumerable`1 softLinks)
at EPiServer.LinkAnalyzer.Internal.LinkValidationRunner.ValidateLinks()
at EPiServer.Scheduler.Internal.DefaultScheduledJobExecutor.<Execute>d__31.MoveNext()