- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:47:37 +0100
- To: QA Dev <public-qa-dev@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org> wrote: >The CSS validator currently refuses to query ports < 1024 other than 80, >to avoid having it used for DOSes for example. This is a choice that >makes some sense, although arguably this is not something we are doing >consistently (with our other tools) and is not hugely useful. It is actively wrong. There are no restrictions on which ports can provide HTTP service, and ports <1024 are «well known» not “reserved” (and, notably, their allocations change over time). Neither of the tools should have any such restrictions without very good, specific, cause. - -- "Temper Temper! Mr. Dre? Mr. NWA? Mr. AK, comin´ straight outta Compton and y'all better make way?" -- eminem -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 iQA/AwUBQcEviKPyPrIkdfXsEQKWOQCcDPcILQxlvYD+RbnYVEd6n0gP/NcAoIEi 0nlh+AY/4Hve7Z7ZgLo0MG4v =1bOH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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