From 48c3da685ed9e85390e79b891298d967d702d4b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Pasquier <spasquie@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:41:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore: disable link validation in mdox

Link validation is too flaky because most sites now implement
rate-limiting.

Signed-off-by: Simon Pasquier <spasquie@redhat.com>
---
 .mdox.validate.yaml | 43 ++-----------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.mdox.validate.yaml b/.mdox.validate.yaml
index 442e04b17..908875eb2 100644
--- a/.mdox.validate.yaml
+++ b/.mdox.validate.yaml
@@ -6,51 +6,12 @@ random_delay: 1s
 explicitLocalValidators: true
 
 validators:
-  # Skip localhost examples.
-  - regex: 'localhost'
-    type: "ignore"
-  # docs.github.com returns 403 if not in browser. Cannot curl as well.
-  - regex: 'docs\.github\.com'
-    type: "ignore"
-  # Cloudflare protection, so returns 503 if not in browser. Cannot curl as well.
-  - regex: 'wise\.com'
-    type: "ignore"
-  # Adopters example link.
-  - regex: "our-link"
-    type: "ignore"
-  # 301 errors even when curl-ed.
-  - regex: "envoyproxy"
-    type: "ignore"
-  # Ignore release links.
-  - regex: 'https:\/\/github\.com\/prometheus-operator\/prometheus-operator\/releases'
-    type: "ignore"
-  # Ignore GitHub container packages link as it returns 404 in curl, but works in browser
-  - regex: 'https://github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkgs/container/prometheus-operator'
+  # Ignore all external URLs because of rate-limiting protections which make the tests very flaky.
+  - regex: '^http(s)?://.+'
     type: "ignore"
   # Ignore links to /img/ because the generated content will resolve them correctly.
   - regex: '/img/.+'
     type: ignore
-  # Twitter changed their policy and now returns 403 if not authenticated. We can guarantee this link since we own the account.
-  - regex: 'https:\/\/twitter.com\/PromOperator'
-    type: ignore
   # Ignore anchor links pointing to the API documentation which are HTML <a> tags and not supported by mdox.
   - regex: 'api\.md#monitoring\.coreos\.com/v1\.(BasicAuth|PrometheusSpec|StorageSpec)$'
     type: ignore
-  # Ignore dead links from Ambassador (soon to be removed).
-  - regex: 'getambassador'
-    type: ignore
-  # Ignore all github.com URLs because of rate limiting.
-  # TODO: find an alternative way to check these URLs avoiding the rate limiting.
-  - regex: 'github.com'
-    type: ignore
-  # Ignore all istio.io URLs because of http request timeout.
-  - regex: 'istio.io'
-    type: ignore
-  # Medium rejects bot's requests.
-  - regex: 'medium.com'
-    type: ignore
-  # Use the githubPullsIssues validator to avoid rate-limiting.
-  - regex: '(^http[s]?:\/\/)(www\.)?(github\.com\/)prometheus-operator\/prometheus-operator(\/pull\/|\/issues\/)'
-    type: githubPullsIssues
-    # The GitHub actions running mdox configure the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.
-    token: '$(GITHUB_TOKEN)'