Respect HSTS policy
Table of Contents
General
- Installation
- Installation on Windows
- Installation on macOS
- Installation on Ubuntu
- Installation on Fedora
- Crawling
- Saving, opening, exporting & importing crawls
- Configuration
- Scheduling
- Exporting
- Robots.txt
- User agent
- Memory
- Checking memory allocation
- Cookies
- XML sitemap creation
- Visualisations
- Reports
- Command line interface set-up
- Command line interface
- User Interface
- Search function
- Auto Updates
Configuration Options
Spider Crawl Tab
- Images
- Media
- CSS
- JavaScript
- SWF
- Internal hyperlinks
- External links
- Canonicals
- Pagination (rel next/prev)
- Hreflang
- AMP
- Meta refresh
- iframes
- Mobile alternate
- Check links outside of start folder
- Crawl outside of start folder
- Crawl all subdomains
- Follow internal or external ‘nofollow’
- Crawl linked XML sitemaps
Spider Extraction Tab
Spider Limits Tab
Spider Rendering Tab
Spider Advanced Tab
- Cookie storage
- Ignore non-indexable URLs for Issues
- Ignore paginated URLs for duplicate filters
- Always follow redirects
- Always follow canonicals
- Respect noindex
- Respect canonical
- Respect next/prev
- Respect HSTS policy
- Respect self referencing meta refresh
- Extract images from img srcset attribute
- Crawl fragment identifiers
- Perform HTML validation
- Green hosting carbon calculation
- Assume pages are HTML
- Response timeout
- 5XX response retries
Spider Preferences Tab
Other Configuration Options
- Content area
- Duplicates
- Spelling & grammar
- Robots.txt
- URL rewriting
- CDNs
- Include
- Exclude
- Speed
- User agent
- HTTP header
- Custom search
- Custom extraction
- Custom link positions
- Custom JavaScript
- Google Analytics integration
- Google Search Console integration
- PageSpeed Insights integration
- Majestic
- Ahrefs
- Moz
- Authentication
- Segments
- Crawl analysis
- User Interface
- Language
- Proxy
- Storage mode
- Memory allocation
- Trusted Certificates
- Mode
Tabs
Top Tabs
- Internal
- External
- Security
- Response Codes
- URL
- Page titles
- Meta description
- Meta keywords
- h1
- h2
- Content
- Images
- Canonicals
- Pagination
- Directives
- hreflang
- JavaScript
- Links
- AMP
- Structured data
- Sitemaps
- PageSpeed
- Mobile
- Custom search
- Custom extraction
- Custom JavaScript
- Analytics
- Search Console
- Validation
- Link Metrics
- Change Detection
Lower Window Tabs
Right Side Window Tabs
Respect HSTS policy
Configuration > Spider > Advanced > Respect HSTS Policy
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a standard, defined in RFC 6797, by which a web server can declare to a client that it should only be accessed via HTTPS.
The client (in this case, the SEO Spider) will then make all future requests over HTTPS, even if following a link to an HTTP URL. When this happens the SEO Spider will show a Status Code of 307, a Status of “HSTS Policy” and Redirect Type of “HSTS Policy”.
You can disable this feature and see the ‘true’ status code behind a redirect (such as a 301 permanent redirect for example). Please see more details in our ‘An SEOs guide to Crawling HSTS & 307 Redirects‘ article.
