diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
index 22e0601..88eefc6 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
+        
     <wb-module deploy-name="catalogue-util-library">
+                
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/java"/>
+                
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/resources"/>
+        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/test/java"/>
+            
     </wb-module>
+    
 </project-modules>
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ddca84a..658ea0b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 ## [v1.0.0] - 2021-02-17
 
+**Bug Fixes**
+[#21259] remove the method that validates the URL
+
+**New Features**
 [#21153] Upgrade the maven-portal-bom to 3.6.1 version
 [#20828] Revisited title size and format
 [#19378] First Release
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/datacatalogue/utillibrary/server/DataCatalogueImpl.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/datacatalogue/utillibrary/server/DataCatalogueImpl.java
index d48d94f..737fe0d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/datacatalogue/utillibrary/server/DataCatalogueImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/datacatalogue/utillibrary/server/DataCatalogueImpl.java
@@ -1119,7 +1119,8 @@ public class DataCatalogueImpl implements DataCatalogue {
 		checkNotNull(resourceBean);
 		checkNotNull(resourceBean.getUrl());
 		
-		boolean isAccessibleURL = false;
+		//Commented since #21259
+		/*boolean isAccessibleURL = false;
 		try {
 			isAccessibleURL = CatalogueUtilMethods.resourceExists(resourceBean.getUrl());
 		} catch (Exception e) {
@@ -1128,7 +1129,7 @@ public class DataCatalogueImpl implements DataCatalogue {
 
 		if(!isAccessibleURL){
 			throw new Exception("It seems there is no resource at this url " + resourceBean.getUrl());
-		}
+		}*/
 
 		GcubeContext gcubeContext = null;
 		try {