F# diagnostics reported to clients should only contain a help link if that link actually resolves to a live URL #1437
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Today we always generate a clickable link for F# compiler diagnostics that have a code - even when there is no matching page for the diagnostic.
FSAC should instead only create such a link if the link exists and is resolvable. To determine this, FSAC should build a one-per-process cache that checks the generate link for a given diagnostic code by sending an httpclient request (following redirects, etc) and verifying if that result returns a 2xx-level status code.
For super bonus points, this cache would be persistable and shareable across sessions (perhaps via some kind of FSAC workspace-based cache - VSCode for example gives each extension a workspace-specific cache directory that could be passed in as a command-line argument to provide a safe cache location, defaulting to some workspace-root-local or user-local location?).
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- I have looked through existing issues to make sure that this feature has not been requested before
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- I am aware that even valid feature requests may be rejected if they do not align with the project's goals
- I or my company would be willing to contribute this feature