- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:16:38 +0000
- To: www-validator-css@w3.org
Dear CSS Validator Team -- I am sure I have mentioned this before, but today the problem has caused us major difficulties and considerable wasted time : I would therefore really appreciate it if it could be resolved promptly. Scenario (simplified) : 1) The CSS validator is asked to validate a non-existent CSS page http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Stylesheets/CSS/TP-Common.css 2) The CSS Validator says that validation was successful, and displays the CSS. 3) The CSS looks /remarkably/ like the CSS that would have been found had the URL been specified correctly, but with subtle differences that cause massive confusion. Background : The IIS is configured to serve a custom 404 (HTML) web page on encountering a 404, and this page page links to a subtly different version of the CSS file intended to be specified at (1) above. This behaviour has now been changed to simplify urgent work here; it may be re-instated in due course, but attempts to replicate the problem will currently shew very different CSS between http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Stylesheets/CSS/TP-Common.css and http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Style-sheets/CSS/TP-Common.css Results : complete confusion. Request : could the CSS validator /please/ report (very loudly !) if the returned resource is declared at HTTP level to be anything other than "text/css", and could it also please report if the served file appears not to be CSS but (say) HTML with CSS embedded or linked ? Philip TAYLOR
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