- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:43:46 +0200
- To: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Cc: public-qa-dev@w3.org
Hi Gerald, On 16-Oct-08, at 2:42 AM, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote: > This happens because web bots commonly add or remove trailing > slashes from URIs at will, then when they come along and request > something like http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi/ they end > up in infinite URI spaces like the above. > > Could you please update the feed validator and any other scripts > you can think of that have this same problem to return something > besides HTTP 200 in this case? (either a redirect or an error) How would you recommend to do that? An apache rule, or a patch to the cgi? If the former, any pointer to how it is best done would be appreciated. If the latter, I suspect the feedback would be better sent upstream to the feedvalidator list, so that any patch can benefit all the instances of the tool. Thanks. -- olivier
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