Add linkcheck_ignore_case configuration option #14045
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This PR adds a new configuration option
linkcheck_ignore_caseto enable case-insensitive URL and anchor checking in the linkcheck builder.Problem
Some web servers (e.g., GitHub, certain hosting platforms) are case-insensitive and may return URLs with different casing than the original link. This causes the linkcheck builder to report false-positive redirects when the URLs differ only in case, even though they point to the same resource.
Solution
linkcheck_ignore_caseboolean configuration option (default:False)AnchorCheckParserto support case-insensitive matching when enableddoc/usage/configuration.rstUsage