Re: Real problem caused by CSS validators willingness to tacitly accept HTML

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote:

> That is because we changed the IIS configuration; I have now
> restored the /status ante bellum/ so that the problem can
> easily be demonstrated and replicated.  If you are willing,
> please repeat your test for this non-existent page :
>
> 	http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Stylesheets/CSS/TP-Common.css

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Stylesheets/CSS/TP-Common.css
gives a nice "Sorry, page does not exist" but...

wget -O /dev/null -S http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Stylesheets/CSS/TP-Common.css
[..]
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   Connection: keep-alive
   Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:18:27 GMT
   Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
   Content-Length: 12120
   Content-Type: text/html
   Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSQRTTSBT=NBBNFMDAPDJGHFNBFHGEHPIO; path=/
   Cache-control: private
Length: 12,120 (12K) [text/html]

So, no 404 here, and some HTML, it si normal for the validator to parse 
this.
Is this an issue when you specify a non-default 404 page in IIS?
Cheers,

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         ~~Yves