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- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:03:50 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1131 ville.skytta@iki.fi changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ot@w3.org Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Additional Comments From ville.skytta@iki.fi 2005-02-23 18:03 ------- Link checker's URI scheme/protocol support comes from the libwww-perl library. At least in theory, all schemes supported by it should be also supported in the link checker. Now, regarding the cases from your example URL: news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.svg This URI is not RFC1738 compliant. There's no hostname part in news: URIs according to the RFC. Maybe it should be nntp://...? news:netscape.public.mozilla.svg This looks ok, but the link checker @ qa-dev.w3.org does not have a default NNTP server configured. Olivier, is there one @w3.org or somewhere we (c|sh)ould use for qa-dev and v.w.o? As far as I know, there's no standard for irc:// URIs. That's probably why it isn't supported in libwww-perl (and consequently nor in link checker). I suggest you contact the libwww-perl authors if you feel it should be supported. http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt (expired 8 years ago) Finally, news: and nntp: URIs are not too well supported in libwww-perl. In particular, they will only work sufficiently for link checker use for URIs that identify an article; the implementation for URIs identifying a newsgroup is pretty incomplete. Yes, that means that even if the news->nntp "bug" would be fixed and a default NNTP server configured for qa-dev and v.w.o, your URIs (both of which identify a newsgroup, not an article) wouldn't be completely supported by libwww-perl (nor link checker) at the moment. (This made me remember that I have some patches that I should send to libwww-perl upstream, those make the nntp support a bit better.)
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