a.textContent is checked even if the text is shortened for the link

[jpoehnelt]

Is there a way to skip the check of textContent for the a tag?

<a href="https://example.com/foo/1231241243124124124">https://example.com/foo/...</a>

Originally posted by @MichaIng in #259 (comment)

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While checking our forum for outdated links, I recognised that also shortened URL text within anchor tags is checked. phpBB shortens long URLs. so that such an element is produced:

<a href="https://example.com/loong/looong/url/that/is/shorteneed/index.html" class="postlink">https://example.com/loong/looong/url/th ... index.html</a>

lychee now checks the URL itself but as well the text, where it identifies https://example.com/loong/looong/url/th as URL, which of course fails.

So once a basic functionality exists to exclude URLs/text based on HTML tags, the text content of tags/elements which have an explicit src/href/... attribute could be excluded by default, as AFAIK such shortening is quite common.

[mre]

Just tested this and you're right. This is a bug, and we should exclude textContent unless --include-verbatim is enabled.

[mre]

Related: #1462 (comment)