Re: I got 403 forbidden when validating

Hi ssilva,

ssilva <s_silva@yahoo.com>, 2015-05-27 14:18 -0700:
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> 
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I have validated my pages for years with your site. My home page is http://muralsandfauxpainting.com. I just did so for a few pages last week as I am changing the code to be responsive. However, this time any of my pages gets the following note on your site:
> 
> I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve <http://muralsandfauxpainting.com/>:
> 403 Forbidden
> You can choose to validate the received error document for example if the URL intentionally points to one (there is also a "Validate error pages" option in the options view for this purpose).
> 
> Now what is really weird is that when I go to the hyperlink you give to validate error pages, it says it validates and passes as HTML 2.0 with a warning, but my pages are XHTML Transitional 1.  What gives? Is there a glitch on your end? I typed my url in my browser and it takes me to my site, so it doesn't show up as 403 Forbidden. 
> 
> Please explain if you can. Thanks for your understanding of this matter.

If you intend for your content to be real XHTML then you probably should
serve it as application/xhtml+xml and use https://validator.w3.org/nu/ to
validate it, or otherwise use https://validator.nu and set the option that
tells it to ignore the content type.

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Michael[tm] Smith https://people.w3.org/mike