GH-103484: Fix broken links reported by linkcheck (#103608)

* Doc: Fix broken links reported by linkcheck

* Apply suggestions from code review

- Remove extra diff line in faq/library.rst (merwok)
- Use HTTPS to link Unicode 15.0.0 to solve a redirect (hugovk)
- Use wayback machine link for openssl 1.1.0 instead of linking 1.1.1, "as this text mentions a feature from 1.1.0" (hugovk)

Co-authored-by: Éric <merwok@netwok.org>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>

* Doc: Make mark-up code as literal

* Doc: Alphabetize items in linkcheck_ignore

Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>

* Doc: Improve comment in sphinx conf

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Éric <merwok@netwok.org>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>

Doc/conf.py

@@ -263,6 +263,24 @@ linkcheck_allowed_redirects = {
     r'https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/.*': 'https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/.*'
 }
 
+linkcheck_anchors_ignore = [
+    # ignore anchors that start with a '/', e.g. Wikipedia media files:
+    # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walrus#/media/File:Pacific_Walrus_-_Bull_(8247646168).jpg
+    r'\/.*',
+]
+
+linkcheck_ignore = [
+    # The crawler gets "Anchor not found"
+    r'https://developer.apple.com/documentation/.+?#.*',
+    r'https://devguide.python.org.+?/#.*',
+    r'https://github.com.+?#.*',
+    # Robot crawlers not allowed: "403 Client Error: Forbidden"
+    r'https://support.enthought.com/hc/.*',
+    # SSLError CertificateError, even though it is valid
+    r'https://unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html',
+]
+
+
 # Options for extensions
 # ----------------------
 

Doc/distributing/index.rst

@@ -129,14 +129,10 @@ involved in creating and publishing a project:
 * `Uploading the project to the Python Package Index`_
 * `The .pypirc file`_
 
-.. _Project structure: \
-    https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#packaging-python-projects
-.. _Building and packaging the project: \
-   https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#creating-the-package-files
-.. _Uploading the project to the Python Package Index: \
-   https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#uploading-the-distribution-archives
-.. _The .pypirc file: \
-   https://packaging.python.org/specifications/pypirc/
+.. _Project structure: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#packaging-python-projects
+.. _Building and packaging the project: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#creating-the-package-files
+.. _Uploading the project to the Python Package Index: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#uploading-the-distribution-archives
+.. _The .pypirc file: https://packaging.python.org/specifications/pypirc/
 
 
 How do I...?

Doc/faq/library.rst

@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ socket to :meth:`select.select` to check if it's writable.
    The :mod:`asyncio` module provides a general purpose single-threaded and
    concurrent asynchronous library, which can be used for writing non-blocking
    network code.
-   The third-party `Twisted <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/>`_ library is
+   The third-party `Twisted <https://twisted.org/>`_ library is
    a popular and feature-rich alternative.
 
 

Doc/howto/functional.rst

@@ -1208,8 +1208,8 @@ General
 -------
 
 **Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs**, by Harold Abelson and
-Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman.  Full text at
-https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/.  In this classic textbook of computer science,
+Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman.  The book can be found at
+https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp.  In this classic textbook of computer science,
 chapters 2 and 3 discuss the use of sequences and streams to organize the data
 flow inside a program.  The book uses Scheme for its examples, but many of the
 design approaches described in these chapters are applicable to functional-style

Doc/howto/urllib2.rst

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ response::
 
     import urllib.request
 
-    req = urllib.request.Request('http://www.voidspace.org.uk')
+    req = urllib.request.Request('http://python.org/')
     with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
        the_page = response.read()
 
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ To illustrate creating and installing a handler we will use the
 ``HTTPBasicAuthHandler``. For a more detailed discussion of this subject --
 including an explanation of how Basic Authentication works - see the `Basic
 Authentication Tutorial
-<http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml>`_.
+<https://web.archive.org/web/20201215133350/http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml>`__.
 
 When authentication is required, the server sends a header (as well as the 401
 error code) requesting authentication.  This specifies the authentication scheme

Doc/library/readline.rst

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ function.
 
 Readline keybindings may be configured via an initialization file, typically
 ``.inputrc`` in your home directory.  See `Readline Init File
-<https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html#SEC9>`_
+<https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html#Readline-Init-File>`_
 in the GNU Readline manual for information about the format and
 allowable constructs of that file, and the capabilities of the
 Readline library in general.

Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

@@ -1605,8 +1605,8 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
    converts it to ``"ss"``.
 
    The casefolding algorithm is
-   `described in section 3.13 of the Unicode Standard
-   <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch03.pdf#G53253>`__.
+   `described in section 3.13 'Default Case Folding' of the Unicode Standard
+   <https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch03.pdf>`__.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.3
 
@@ -1768,8 +1768,9 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
    one character, ``False`` otherwise.  Alphabetic characters are those characters defined
    in the Unicode character database as "Letter", i.e., those with general category
    property being one of "Lm", "Lt", "Lu", "Ll", or "Lo".  Note that this is different
-   from the `Alphabetic property defined in the Unicode Standard
-   <https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch04.pdf#G91002>`_.
+   from the `Alphabetic property defined in the section 4.10 'Letters, Alphabetic, and
+   Ideographic' of the Unicode Standard
+   <https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch04.pdf>`_.
 
 
 .. method:: str.isascii()
@@ -1904,8 +1905,8 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
    lowercase.
 
    The lowercasing algorithm used is
-   `described in section 3.13 of the Unicode Standard
-   <https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch03.pdf#G34078>`__.
+   `described in section 3.13 'Default Case Folding' of the Unicode Standard
+   <https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch03.pdf>`__.
 
 
 .. method:: str.lstrip([chars])
@@ -2250,8 +2251,8 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
    titlecase).
 
    The uppercasing algorithm used is
-   `described in section 3.13 of the Unicode Standard
-   <https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch03.pdf#G34078>`__.
+   `described in section 3.13 'Default Case Folding' of the Unicode Standard
+   <https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch03.pdf>`__.
 
 
 .. method:: str.zfill(width)

Doc/library/zipfile.rst

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 .. moduleauthor:: James C. Ahlstrom <jim@interet.com>
 .. sectionauthor:: James C. Ahlstrom <jim@interet.com>
 
-**Source code:** :source:`Lib/zipfile.py`
+**Source code:** :source:`Lib/zipfile/`
 
 --------------
 

Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst

@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ this edition of "What's New in Python" links to the bug/patch
 item for each change.
 
 Hosting of the Python bug tracker is kindly provided by
-`Upfront Systems <http://www.upfrontsoftware.co.za>`__
+`Upfront Systems <https://upfrontsoftware.co.za>`__
 of Stellenbosch, South Africa.  Martin von Löwis put a
 lot of effort into importing existing bugs and patches from
 SourceForge; his scripts for this import operation are at

Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst

@@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
 
 * The latest release of the GNU Debugger, GDB 7, can be `scripted
   using Python
-  <https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Python.html>`__.
+  <https://web.archive.org/web/20110715084810/http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Python.html>`__.
   When you begin debugging an executable program P, GDB will look for
   a file named ``P-gdb.py`` and automatically read it.  Dave Malcolm
   contributed a :file:`python-gdb.py` that adds a number of

Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b2.rst

@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ Wirtel
 
 Add TLSVersion constants and SSLContext.maximum_version / minimum_version
 attributes. The new API wraps OpenSSL 1.1
-https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html
+https://web.archive.org/web/20180309043602/https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html
 feature.
 
 ..

Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst

@@ -5951,7 +5951,7 @@ Wirtel
 
 Add TLSVersion constants and SSLContext.maximum_version / minimum_version
 attributes. The new API wraps OpenSSL 1.1
-https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html
+https://web.archive.org/web/20180309043602/https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html
 feature.
 
 ..

Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst

@@ -4887,7 +4887,7 @@ Fix use of registry values to launch Python from Microsoft Store app.
 .. section: Windows
 
 Fix memory leak on Windows in creating an SSLContext object or running
-urllib.request.urlopen('https://...').
+``urllib.request.urlopen('https://...')``.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a2.rst

@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ added.
 
 Update documentation to state that to activate virtual environments under
 fish one should use `source`, not `.` as documented at
-https://fishshell.com/docs/current/commands.html#source.
+https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/source.html.
 
 ..
 

Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a4.rst

@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ The distutils ``bdist_msi`` command is deprecated in Python 3.9, use
 Improved performance of zipfile.Path for files with a large number of
 entries. Also improved performance and fixed minor issue as published with
 `importlib_metadata 1.5
-<https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog%20(links).html#v1-5-0>`_.
+<https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#v1-5-0>`_.
 
 ..