You can set link checking methods on the individual basis. What would be cool is a hook to allow changing the method based on certain criteria... but in lue of that, an easy fix could be to set them all to GET when you need to in the case you have external servers that don't implement HEAD in standard ways. Example in my case, I got hold of an ORACLE server that sent 404 for HEAD requests. Ideally I would be able to look for all links with that domain and set them to be created with GET as the default method... Instead... just going to use GET on everything.

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Created a simple patch... No UI.

Options:
NULL (default), Autodetect
GET
HEAD

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D7 reached its EOL back in January 2025, and there is no active release for D7 for this module anymore.
Development or support is not planned for D7. All D7-related issues are marked as outdated in a bunch.

If the issue remains relevant for D10+ versions, merge requests with proposed solutions for a new module version (D10+) are welcome in a new follow-up issue.

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