- From: Brian Kelly <B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:09:35 -0000
- To: 'Soren Johannessen' <standard@ae35-unit.dk>
- Cc: public-evangelist@w3.org
> >Hi Soren > > Another question about the methodology. > > Did you validate the page that the end user would view or > the entry > >point of the Web site? I've sometimes found that redirects > (which can > >be implemented in several ways)can mean that these aren't > identical and > >this can affect the results of validation checks - i.e. you end up > >analysing a HTTP redirect message and not the final page > which the user sees. > > > > > > > Hi Brian > > Since it's the main entry point like www.db.dk, www.kb.dk etc > I have been testing. I don't think there is any HTTP redirect > so often. So I am almost 99 % sure that the validation survey > shows the final page which the enduser sees. Hi Soren I'm finding an increasing number of Web site which have redirects from the main entry point. For example: http://library.newcastle.gov.uk/ goes to http://library.newcastle.gov.uk/cgi-bin/newcastle-cat.sh? > >PS I also think it would be useful to record the MIME type > of the entry > >point - especially for XHTML documents. > > > You mean here if the XHTML documents has been served as > "text/html" or as (application/xhtml+xml)? Yes - although I've also found a small number which send incorrect HTTP headers / MIME types (typically due to a misconfigured Web server). For example the (non-existent) resource at http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/foo aends HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:09:28 GMT Content-Length: 17093 Content-Type: application/octet-stream as described at: http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fetchhead?query=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peopl esnetwork.gov.uk%2Ffoo%2F&action=+++Get+Header++ Brian > /Soren > >
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