Sync eng/common directory with azure-sdk-tools for PR 13281 (Azure#3414)

Sync eng/common directory with azure-sdk-tools for PR
Azure/azure-sdk-tools#13281 See [eng/common
workflow](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-tools/blob/main/eng/common/README.md#workflow)

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Co-authored-by: Wes Haggard <Wes.Haggard@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Wes Haggard <weshaggard@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: 3 people

eng/common/scripts/Verify-Links.ps1

@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ function ProcessLink([System.Uri]$linkUri) {
     # See comment in function below for details.
     return ProcessCratesIoLink $linkUri $matches['path']
   }
+  elseif ($linkUri -match '^https?://(www\.)?npmjs\.com/package/.+') {
+    return ProcessNpmLink $linkUri
+  }
   else {
     return ProcessStandardLink $linkUri
   }
@@ -157,6 +160,14 @@ function ProcessCratesIoLink([System.Uri]$linkUri, $path) {
   return $true
 }
 
+function ProcessNpmLink([System.Uri]$linkUri) {
+  # npmjs.com started using Cloudflare which returns 403 and we need to instead check the registry api for existence checks
+  # https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174098#discussioncomment-14461226
+  $apiUrl = $linkUri.ToString() -replace '^https?://(?:www\.)?npmjs\.com/package/(.*)/v', 'https://registry.npmjs.org/$1'
+
+  return ProcessStandardLink ([System.Uri]$apiUrl)
+}
+
 function ProcessStandardLink([System.Uri]$linkUri) {
   $headRequestSucceeded = $true
   try {