- From: Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:47:04 -0500
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000, Terje Bless wrote: > >Yes, if a document is in a private space and it has a bunch of links in > >the same area, the link checker will report those links as 401's. This is > >because the link checker to check technical reports which are public. > > But don't you proxy the auth request for the original document to the > browser? Why not cache that and attempt to use it for the relative links > within the same realm? The only time this would create a problem is with a > public document that links to private documents. That's an excellent point: 401's should be reported only if the realm is different from the one for the document checked. -- Hugo Haas - W3C/MIT mailto:hugo@w3.org - http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/ - tel:+1-617-452-2092
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