dead links in docs #6678
Description
While prepping for 1.5.2 I ran linkchecker against external targets, this is the list of things that I could not easily resolve
URL `http://aspnetresources.com/tools/colorBlindness'
Name `http://aspnetresources.com/tools/colorBlindness'
Parent URL file:///home/tcaswell/source/p/matplotlib/doc/build/html/users/colormaps.html, line 408, col 86
Real URL http://www.aspnetresources.com/tools/colorBlindness
Check time 3.353 seconds
Info Redirected to
`http://www.aspnetresources.com/tools/colorBlindness'.
Result Error: 404 Not Found
URL `http://aspnetresources.com/tools/colorBlindness'
Name `http://aspnetresources.com/tools/colorBlindness'
Parent URL file:///home/tcaswell/source/p/matplotlib/doc/build/html/users/colormaps.html, line 414, col 75
Real URL http://www.aspnetresources.com/tools/colorBlindness
Check time 3.336 seconds
Info Redirected to
`http://www.aspnetresources.com/tools/colorBlindness'.
Result Error: 404 Not Found
This site seems to be taken over by a Japanese website that google translate tells me is selling health insurance
RESOLVED
URL `http://mindtrove.info/articles/python-weak-references/'
Name `“Mindtrove” blog'
Parent URL file:///home/tcaswell/source/p/matplotlib/doc/build/html/api/cbook_api.html, line 211, col 1
Real URL http://mindtrove.info/articles/python-weak-references/
Check time 0.196 seconds
Result Error: 404 Not Found
Contacted author
RESOLVED
URL `http://www.jwave.vt.edu/%7Erkriz/Projects/create_color_table/color_07.pdf'
Name `Rainbow Color\nMap (Still) Considered Harmful'
Parent URL file:///home/tcaswell/source/p/matplotlib/doc/build/html/api/pyplot_summary.html, line 954, col 58
Real URL http://www.jwave.vt.edu/~rkriz/Projects/create_color_table/color_07.pdf
Check time 0.113 seconds
Result Error: ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='www.jwave.vt.edu', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /~rkriz/Projects/create_color_table/color_07.pdf (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection objec...
Entire domain is gone
RESOLVED
URL `http://mpl.code.astraw.com/overview.html'
Name `image comparison'
Parent URL file:///home/tcaswell/source/p/matplotlib/doc/build/html/users/whats_new.html, line 2339, col 16
Real URL http://mpl.code.astraw.com/overview.html
Check time 0.424 seconds
URL `http://mpl-buildbot.code.astraw.com/'
Name `buildbot'
Parent URL file:///home/tcaswell/source/p/matplotlib/doc/build/html/users/credits.html, line 154, col 41
Real URL http://mpl-buildbot.code.astraw.com/
Check time 0.090 seconds
domains seem to be gone attn @astraw