- From: Bob Brown <bbrown@spsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:43:50 -0500
- To: www-validator@w3.org
I am a teacher at a university. I require my students to validate their HTML using the W3C validator. Today students on campus began getting the message "Excessive traffic pattern blocked." It is possible that someone has installed a "validate everything" plugin; it is also possible that 80+ students are validating a page at a time, but all behind the same gateway: 168.28.180.30. I understand that I should not contact the W3C about this because the restriction will be removed when the pattern stops. My real problem is this: The error page says, "You should still be able to use the form interface on the Validator Home Page to check the page by URL." I am happy with telling my students they must use that mechanism and no other. However, attempting to validate through the validator home page *also* produces the "Excessive traffic pattern blocked" message. Can this be fixed to allow one-at-a-time validations? Best regards, Bob Brown, Ph.D. --- Senior Lecturer in Information Technology Teacher of the Year, 2009-2010 College of Computing and Software Engineering Mail Stop J-330 Kennesaw State University Marietta Campus 1100 South Marietta Parkway SE Marietta, Georgia 30060-2855 (678) 915-7505 http://educate.spsu.edu/bbrown/ http://bbrown.spsu.edu/bbrown.vcf About PGP signatures: http://goo.gl/j965zf
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