diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/test-skins.yml b/.gitea/workflows/test-skins.yml
index b84265f..deff6f6 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/test-skins.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/test-skins.yml
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check all links in markdown files
         run: |
           #!/bin/bash
+          set -o pipefail
           
           echo ""
           echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
@@ -166,12 +167,12 @@ jobs:
             
             # Extract ALL links from the markdown file
             # Match both []() and direct URLs - using Perl regex for better handling
-            grep -oP '\]\(([^\)]+)\)' "$md_file" | sed 's/](\(.*\))/\1/' > /tmp/links_$$.txt || true
+            {
+              grep -oP '\]\(([^\)]+)\)' "$md_file" 2>/dev/null | sed 's/](\(.*\))/\1/' || true
+              grep -oP '!\[[^\]]*\]\(([^\)]+)\)' "$md_file" 2>/dev/null | sed 's/!\[.*\](\(.*\))/\1/' || true
+            } > /tmp/links_$$.txt
             
-            # Also extract image links
-            grep -oP '!\[[^\]]*\]\(([^\)]+)\)' "$md_file" | sed 's/!\[.*\](\(.*\))/\1/' >> /tmp/links_$$.txt || true
-            
-            link_count=$(wc -l < /tmp/links_$$.txt)
+            link_count=$(wc -l < /tmp/links_$$.txt 2>/dev/null || echo "0")
             
             if [ $link_count -eq 0 ]; then
               echo "  ℹ️  No links found in this file"
@@ -191,9 +192,17 @@ jobs:
               
               # Check if it's an external URL
               if [[ "$decoded_link" =~ ^https?:// ]]; then
-                # Check external URL with curl
-                http_code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" --max-time 10 "$decoded_link" 2>/dev/null)
-                if [[ "$http_code" =~ ^2[0-9][0-9]$ ]] || [[ "$http_code" =~ ^3[0-9][0-9]$ ]]; then
+                # URL-encode the link for curl (convert spaces and special chars)
+                # Use the original encoded link, not the decoded one
+                encoded_url="$link"
+                
+                # Check external URL with curl (with User-Agent header for better compatibility)
+                http_code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" --max-time 10 \
+                  -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36" \
+                  "$encoded_url" 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+                
+                # Accept 2xx and 3xx status codes as valid
+                if [[ "$http_code" =~ ^[23][0-9][0-9]$ ]]; then
                   echo "  ✅ $decoded_link"
                 else
                   echo "  ❌ $decoded_link (HTTP $http_code)"