Re: Markup Validation Service

On 19 Jul 2012, at 2:20 PM, Faraz Khan wrote:

> Our firewall is open to everyone for port 80 and 443 on our server.  It's a public website.  Some of your other tools such as CSS validator works just fine, so why not html validator.  What is the difference in connection between css and html validators.  Do you use some special user agent string?   
> 
> I will keep looking on our end.

My colleagues wrote:

 "the site is filtering based on user-agent, and explicitly filtering the markup validator's UA string"

and

 "ok, with mozilla or wget UA string => ok, if I use the markup val UA string (W3C_Validator/1.3), it timeouts"

Hope that helps...

Ian



> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Jacobs [mailto:ij@w3.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:19 AM
> To: Ian Jacobs
> Cc: Faraz Khan; site-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Markup Validation Service
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> 
> On 19 Jul 2012, at 8:59 AM, Ian Jacobs wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 19 Jul 2012, at 8:31 AM, Faraz Khan wrote:
>> 
>>> For the past few days I have not been able to validate my website at http://www.law.asu.edu.  Each time a 500 read timeout is returned while using the tool.  Other tools such as CSS Validator are working.  Is there a problem with your tool?
>>> 
>>> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.asu.edu
>> 
>> Faraz,
>> 
>> Apologies for the inconvenience. There may have been some minor issues the past few days. 
>> 
>> It may also be a question of a tool making a lot of requests; see our FAQ on this topic:
>> http://www.w3.org/Help/Webmaster#slowdtd
> 
> Follow-up: It seems our validator is blocked from accessing your site.  It could be a firewall or web server configuration. Unfortunately I think it's on your end that this is happening.
> 
> Ian
> 
>> 
>> Please try again and let me know if the issue persists.
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Faraz Khan
>>> 
>>> 
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