Index: /Validate External Links/validate_external_links.sh
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--- /Validate External Links/validate_external_links.sh	(revision 1176)
+++ /Validate External Links/validate_external_links.sh	(revision 1177)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Validate External Links by Iritscen
+# Validate External Links by Iritscen (iritscen@yahoo.com)
 #
 # Validates a list of external links in CSV format. The resulting logs are produced in three formats:
@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@
 LINKS_URL=""           # download external link CSV from this location (can use "file://" protocol)
 EXCEPT_URL=""          # location of wiki page with a list of exceptions for NG results
-OUTPUT_DIR=""	       # place reports and all other output in a folder inside this existing folder
+OUTPUT_DIR=""	        # place reports and all other output in a folder inside this existing folder
 RECORD_OK_LINKS=0      # record response code to the log even when it's a value in OK_CODES
 SHOW_SLASH=0           # record issue when a slash is added to the end of a URL
@@ -98,4 +98,6 @@
 RD_LINKS=0
 NG_LINKS=0
+SKIP_PARSE_FAIL=0
+SKIP_UNK_PROT=0
 SKIP_UNK_NS=0
 SKIP_JS_PAGE=0
@@ -506,5 +508,5 @@
    LINKS_PROCESSED=$((LINK_NUM-URL_START+1))
    TRIVIAL_RDS=$((SKIP_SLASH_ADD+SKIP_HTTPS_UP+SKIP_YOUTU_BE))
-   LINK_ERRORS=$((SKIP_UNK_NS+SKIP_JS_PAGE+SKIP_BAD_URL+SKIP_NON_ASCII+SKIP_UNK_SUFFIX+SKIP_UNK_CODE))
+   LINK_ERRORS=$((SKIP_PARSE_FAIL+SKIP_UNK_PROT+SKIP_UNK_NS+SKIP_JS_PAGE+SKIP_BAD_URL+SKIP_NON_ASCII+SKIP_UNK_SUFFIX+SKIP_UNK_CODE))
    LINKS_EXCEPTED=$((SKIP_EXPECT_NG+SKIP_EXPECT_RD+SKIP_EXPECT_EI+SKIP_EXPECT_IW))
    LINK_PROBLEMS_TOTAL=$((NG_LINKS+RD_LINKS+EI_LINKS+IW_LINKS))
@@ -545,4 +547,6 @@
       valPrint rt "$LINK_ERRORS link $(pluralCheckNoun error $LINK_ERRORS):"
    fi
+   if [ $SKIP_PARSE_FAIL -gt 0 ]; then valPrint ctrh "- $SKIP_PARSE_FAIL line-parsing $(pluralCheckNoun failure $SKIP_PARSE_FAIL)"; fi
+   if [ $SKIP_UNK_PROT -gt 0 ]; then valPrint ctrh "- $SKIP_UNK_PROT unknown $(pluralCheckNoun protocol $SKIP_UNK_PROT)"; fi
    if [ $SKIP_UNK_NS -gt 0 ]; then valPrint ctrh "- $SKIP_UNK_NS missing/unknown $(pluralCheckNoun namespace $SKIP_UNK_NS)"; fi
    if [ $SKIP_JS_PAGE -gt 0 ]; then valPrint ctrh "- $SKIP_JS_PAGE $(pluralCheckNoun link $SKIP_JS_PAGE) on $(pluralCheckA $SKIP_JS_PAGE)JavaScript $(pluralCheckNoun page $SKIP_JS_PAGE)"; fi
@@ -782,4 +786,22 @@
       wrapupAndExit
    fi
+   
+   # Parse line into namespace ID number, containing wiki page, and external link URL
+   NS_ID=${LINE%%,*}
+   PAGE_NAME=${LINE#$NS_ID,}
+   PAGE_NAME=${PAGE_NAME%%,*} # a comma in the page name will break this
+   URL=${LINE#$NS_ID,$PAGE_NAME,} # commas can be in this
+   if [ -z "$NS_ID" ] || [ -z "$PAGE_NAME" ] || [ -z "$URL" ]; then
+      valPrint trs "Skipping line $LINK_NUM ('$LINE') because the namespace, wiki page or link URL could not be read."
+      let SKIP_PARSE_FAIL+=1
+      continue
+   fi
+   
+   # Skip any link that isn't "http://" or "https://"
+   if [[ ! $URL =~ ^http* ]]; then
+      valPrint trs "Skipping line $LINK_NUM ('$LINE') because the protocol isn't 'http://' or 'https://'."
+      let SKIP_UNK_PROT+=1
+      continue
+   fi
 
    # Print progress to screen
@@ -788,7 +810,4 @@
    fi
    valPrint cn "Evaluating URL $LINK_NUM/$LINK_COUNT..."
-
-   # The number of the namespace is the element before the first comma on the line
-   NS_ID=${LINE%%,*}
 
    # Find namespace number in NS_IDS and use it to look up namespace's name in NS_NAMES
@@ -815,9 +834,4 @@
    fi
 
-   # The name of the page is everything between the namespace ID and the next comma on the line (commas
-   # in page names will break this)
-   PAGE_NAME=${LINE#$NS_ID,}
-   PAGE_NAME=${PAGE_NAME%%,*}
-
    # Build longer wiki page URLs from namespace and page names
    FULL_PAGE_PATH=https://$WIKI_PATH/$NS_NAME:$PAGE_NAME
@@ -839,8 +853,4 @@
       continue
    fi
-
-   # The URL being linked to is everything after the previous two fields (this allows commas to be in
-   # the URLs, but a comma in the previous field, the page name, will break this)
-   URL=${LINE#$NS_ID,$PAGE_NAME,}
 
    # Scan for illegal characters