Remediation
HTTP `Link:` response headers carry useful relations (canonical, alternate, describedby) that agents consume without parsing HTML.
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Why it matters
HTTP `Link:` response headers carry useful relations (canonical, alternate, describedby) that agents consume without parsing HTML.
Underlying specification: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8288
How to fix
- See the full check definition in the rubric (linked above) for the canonical reference.
- Read the underlying specification at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8288.
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