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Re: markup validator service and RFC 2616

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:16:24 +0000
To: Isabel Gomez Miragaya <isabelg@microsoft.com>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <20051121151624.GF11311@us-lot.org> 

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 02:42:42PM -0000, Isabel Gomez Miragaya wrote:

>    We are trying to check if an HTTP response coming from an ISAPI is
>    compliant with RFC 2616

>    Can we use the markup validator service for this purpose?

No. The Markup Validator checks conformance of markup to a DTD. It
does not perform any checks against the transport protocol (other then
issuing warnings in cases where problems with it make it impossible to
accurately perform the markup validation).


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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk
Received on Monday, 21 November 2005 15:16:30 GMT

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