Re: browser can see page but validator gets an error

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 14:38, David Dorward wrote:
> On 26 Apr 2004, at 12:20, Claus Rosenberger wrote:
> > i try to check an website but the validator gets an error all the time.
> >
> >  I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve
> > <http://www.rocnet.de/>:
> >
> >     500 Internal Server Error
> >
> > if i call the website with a browser i don't get any error, any ideas 
> > why?
> 
> It looks like that page is dynamically generated and depends on certain 
> http headers, but it doesn't exit cleanly if those headers are not 
> present. A 500 error is also found if one tries to download it using 
> wget.

At least the 500 error is triggered if the Accept-Language header is not
present in the request.  (And the Validator does not currently send that
header.)