All LinkedIn Links marked as Broken…for months

Hi,

I LOVE your plugin. I use it on multiple sites and tell all of my clients to use it as well.

However….for months all LinkedIn links have been being marked as broken.

I check them, click on not broken and a couple of days later…broken.

This has been going on for months across multiple sites. It has been through multiple versions of WP and multiple versions of the plugin.

LinkedIn links are not the only ones this is happening to, but it is happening to ALL of them.

The plugin shows an unknown error with the following details on one of the linkedin links this morning.

Link last checked: October 15, 2014
HTTP code: 999
Response time: 0.049 seconds
Final URL: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-flowers/7/777/159
Redirect count: 0
Instance count: 1

This link has failed 3 times.
This link has been broken for 2 hours.
Log: === HTTP code : 999 ===

HTTP/1.1 999 Request denied
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:04:09 GMT
Server: ATS
X-Li-Pop: PROD-ELA4
X-LI-UUID: BvLXqaxnnROgUk8oDisAAA==
Content-Length: 511
Content-Type: text/html

Link is broken.

I have even tied making the timeout time longer (60 seconds instead of the default 30 seconds) and no change.

It is very frustrating. To the point that most of the time I am finding myself ignoring the emails I get and the broken link notices when I login because half the time the links that are marked as broken are not actually broken.

A fix to these issue would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,
Cindy

https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/