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Re: Checklink: missing error messages(B

From: Martin Duerst(B <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 02:30:50 +0900
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To: Ville Skytt(wrong string) g(B<ville.skytta@iki.fi> (B
Cc: www-validator@w3.org (B

At 13:00 02/12/06 +0200, Ville Skytt wrote:
>On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 22:46, Martin Duerst wrote:
>
> > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Hosts/Keio/
> > What to do:
> > HTTP Code returned: 406
> > HTTP Message: Not Acceptable
> > Line: 62
> >
> > One problem is that the 'What to do' doesn't give any advice.
> > This is important because the advice is colored according to
> > the severity of the problem. It would be red here, but the red
> > is not shown because there is no text that could be given a red
> > background.
>
>Yes.  This is already logged as bug #55 [1], and the only, very lame
>reason that prevented me from implementing this some time ago [2] was
>the uncertainty what exactly should the error text be.  Suggestions and
>comments still accepted :)

Well, I would go with something simple like 'check it out'.

Regards,    Martin.


> > Using either the Accept-Language
> > header of the requester or none seems reasonable, but it
> > looks like checklink is sending out Accept-Language with
> > some arbitrary language (turns out this is english,
>
>Yes, need to do something about that.  I've logged this as bug #110 [3].
>
>[1] <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=55>
>[2]
><http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0022.html>
>[3] <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=110>
>
>Thanks for the suggestions,
>--
>\/ille Skytt$Bg(Bville.skytta at iki.fi
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