Referer header (lack of) (RE: One problem carried over, and a new one (Amaya 8.1a))

Clarification of the previous - a network capture of an entire HTTP header
as emitted by Amaya shows that it does not emit a Referer: HTTP header with
a GET request:- 
 
00000030                    47 45 54 20 2F 49 63 6F 6E 73       GET./Icons
00000040  2F 57 57 57 2F 77 33 63 5F 68 6F 6D 65 20 48 54 /WWW/w3c_home.HT
00000050  54 50 2F 31 2E 31 0D 0A 41 63 63 65 70 74 2D 45 TP/1.1..Accept-E
00000060  6E 63 6F 64 69 6E 67 3A 20 2A 2C 67 7A 69 70 0D ncoding:.*,gzip.
00000070  0A 54 45 3A 20 74 72 61 69 6C 65 72 73 2C 64 65 .TE:.trailers,de
00000080  66 6C 61 74 65 0D 0A 48 6F 73 74 3A 20 77 77 77 flate..Host:.www
00000090  2E 77 33 2E 6F 72 67 0D 0A 55 73 65 72 2D 41 67 .w3.org..User-Ag
000000A0  65 6E 74 3A 20 61 6D 61 79 61 2F 38 2E 31 61 20 ent:.amaya/8.1a.
000000B0  6C 69 62 77 77 77 2F 35 2E 34 2E 30 0D 0A 43 6F libwww/5.4.0..Co
000000C0  6E 6E 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 3A 20 54 45 2C 4B 65 65 nnection:.TE,Kee
000000D0  70 2D 41 6C 69 76 65 0D 0A 41 63 63 65 70 74 3A p-Alive..Accept:
000000E0  20 2A 2F 2A 3B 71 3D 30 2E 31 2C 69 6D 61 67 65 .*/*;q=0.1,image
000000F0  2F 2A 2C 69 6D 61 67 65 2F 67 69 66 2C 69 6D 61 /*,image/gif,ima
00000100  67 65 2F 6A 70 65 67 2C 69 6D 61 67 65 2F 70 6E ge/jpeg,image/pn
00000110  67 2C 69 6D 61 67 65 2F 73 76 67 2B 78 6D 6C 2C g,image/svg+xml,
00000120  69 6D 61 67 65 2F 73 76 67 2B 78 6D 6C 0D 0A 0D image/svg+xml...
00000130  0A                                              .               
 
 
The check/referer URL is of course the one in the mark-up offered on the
validator page after a successful validation; and referse to some executable
that parses the GET header for the Referer: line.
 
It is a separate issue that Amaya and the validator.w3.org parser produce
slightly different reports given the same input (e.g. Amaya notes that
<a><applet/></a> is not valid XHTML1.0 Transitional, but validator.w3.org
accepts it).
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Gilham [mailto:steven.gilham@eu.citrix.com] 
Sent: 12 August 2003 10:52
To: www-amaya@w3.org
Subject: One problem carried over, and a new one (Amaya 8.1a)
 
Using Amaya 8.1a on Win2k Advanced Server 
1) Newly spotted problem - empty referrer 
Following a link of the form http://validator.w3.org/check/referer
<http://validator.w3.org/check/referer>  leads to the page
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri= <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=>  
2) Problem carried forwards from 7.x - using the following works if the page
loaded and the css file are in the same directory on the local host
<style type="text/css" media="screen">@import url( site.css );</style> 
and such CSS as Amaya supports (i.e. we expect positioning not to work yet)
is carried out; but when the files are placed on a web-server, it does not
(though Mozilla 1.4 and IE6 resolve it); and the CSS files are fetched
(according to the status line)