Re: several fixes

From: Brian Gilkison (gilkison@one.net)
Date: Tue, Apr 17 2001

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    Date: 	Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:41:01 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Brian Gilkison <gilkison@one.net>
    To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104172127060.23539-100000@shell.one.net>
    Subject: Re: several fixes
    
    On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Terje Bless wrote:
    > 
    > >  * valid HTML and use of "constants" for redirect_to_home_page()
    > 
    > Thanks! This should have been fixed ages ago. (Brian, didn't you suggest we
    > fix this a while back? cf. the UNIX->NT thread?)
    
    Sort of; it wasn't directly related to the UNIX->NT thread, but rather to
    generalize the Validator such that image tags, etc. were pulling images
    from wherever a local copy of the validator may be running, as opposed to
    grabbing them from the W3C servers -- my original quote was: "I would call
    it more of a "courtesy" patch -- if you're going to make your own copy of
    the validator accessible, serve the images from your own
    server!" (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2001JanMar/0222.html).
    
    I haven't looked at Bjorn's code; my patch dealt with expanding the use of
    $abs_svc_uri -- the current version of 'check' defines it (somewhere
    around line 69), then uses it *once* (~line 199), to tell the user when
    they've attempted to use a non "http://" URL.  Yet many instances of
    'http://validator.w3.org/' remain throughout the script.
    
    I presume from Bjorn's original message that his patch and mine had/have
    some overlap in this regard...
    
    Brian
    
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