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    <bug>
          <bug_id>1491</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2005-06-05 15:39:57 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Follow redirects</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2007-04-04 04:40:20 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>CSSValidator</product>
          <component>XHTML1.0</component>
          <version>CSS Validator</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>All</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>INVALID</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://validator.w3.org/check</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords>Usability</keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>enhancement</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Kim Daugaard">kim.daugaard</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Olivier Thereaux">ot</assigned_to>
          
          
          <qa_contact name="qa-dev tracking">www-validator-cvs</qa_contact>

      

      

      

          <comment_sort_order>oldest_to_newest</comment_sort_order>  
          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>3024</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Kim Daugaard">kim.daugaard</who>
    <bug_when>2005-06-05 15:39:58 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>A lot of sites are using browser check functionality before letting a browser
enter the requested page. This is also true for the validator client. 

Please follow redirecte(status 302) to receive the wanted page to validate!</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>3025</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Bj">bjoern</who>
    <bug_when>2005-06-05 15:44:18 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Do you have a sample page for which the Validator does not follow the redirect? 
It should follow them already, I&apos;d rather suspect that this is a &lt;meta&gt; or 
script-based redirect. We can&apos;t really follow script-based redirection and for 
&lt;meta&gt; there is some other feature request already.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>4338</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Kim Daugaard">kim.daugaard</who>
    <bug_when>2005-06-23 16:23:25 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>(In reply to comment #1)
&gt; Do you have a sample page for which the Validator does not follow the 
redirect? 
&gt; It should follow them already, I&apos;d rather suspect that this is a &lt;meta&gt; or 
&gt; script-based redirect. We can&apos;t really follow script-based redirection and 
for 
&gt; &lt;meta&gt; there is some other feature request already.

Yes: http://pingo.cv.ihk.dk:8080/NetBanken/pages/home.jsf</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>4341</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Olivier Thereaux">ot</who>
    <bug_when>2005-06-23 21:41:21 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>(In reply to comment #2)
&gt; &gt; Do you have a sample page for which the Validator does not follow the 
&gt; &gt; redirect? 
&gt; Yes: http://pingo.cv.ihk.dk:8080/NetBanken/pages/home.jsf

I don&apos;t see why you complain that the validator does not follow redirect. It does, but fails to follow it to 
an acceptable target, and detects a redirect loop. I haven&apos;t had time to look into it thoroughly, but I 
suspect your redirection code is broken for user agents that do not accept cookies.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>14667</commentid>
    <comment_count>4</comment_count>
    <who name="Olivier Thereaux">ot</who>
    <bug_when>2007-04-04 04:40:20 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>(Follow-up to comment #3)
&gt; I don&apos;t see why you complain that the validator does not follow redirect. It does, but fails to follow it to 
&gt; an acceptable target, and detects a redirect loop. I haven&apos;t had time to look into it thoroughly, but I 
&gt; suspect your redirection code is broken for user agents that do not accept cookies.

Indeed. Testing with my browser and refusing the cookie got me in a redirection loop. 
Your redirection code is broken.
Closing INVALID.</thetext>
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