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Bug 7464 - W3C Validation badges trigger HTTP_RESPONSE-11
Summary: W3C Validation badges trigger HTTP_RESPONSE-11
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: mobileOK Basic checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web interface (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: fd
QA Contact: fd
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Reported: 2009-08-31 08:38 UTC by fd
Modified: 2009-09-08 08:33 UTC (History)
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Description fd 2009-08-31 08:38:27 UTC 
To prevent looping, W3C validation services refuse to process requests coming from W3C servers and return an HTTP status code 403.

When the mobileOK Checker runs tests on a page that contains a W3C CSS badge with a link to the CSS validation service, the request to the W3C CSS validation service returns a 403, and the mobileOK Checker reports an HTTP_RESPONSE-11.

At the very least, the mobileOK Checker should know about these exceptions... or not report the error when we know it is not a real error.

See:
 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-bpwg/2009Aug/0030.html
Comment 1 fd 2009-09-08 08:33:42 UTC 
HTTP_RESPONSE-11 failures ignored when the domain name ends with w3.org. That is a bit broad and will hide some errors in particular when checking real W3C web pages. but I think we can live with that.