[Bug 2347] Allow the W3C Link validator to check links to the CSS validator

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2347

           Summary: Allow the W3C Link validator to check links to the CSS
                    validator
           Product: CSSValidator
           Version: CSS Validator
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://jigsaw.w3.org/robots.txt
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: Usability
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: ot@w3.org
        ReportedBy: Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org


The W3C link validator balks on any link to
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/; quote:
  http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=...&profile=css2
    What to do: The link was not checked due to robots exclusion rules.
    Check the link manually.
    Response status code: (N/A)
    Response message: Forbidden by robots.txt
    Line: 419

Note that the CSS Validator even recommends to include, in the
pages to be checked, a link to itself; yet, the link checker from
the same organisation does not check those recommendend links.

Please include in http://jigsaw.w3.org/robots.txt the following code:
  User-Agent: W3C-checklink
  Disallow:
or, if you want to be more restrictive:
  User-Agent: W3C-checklink
  Disallow: /guest-demos/
  Disallow: /status/
  Disallow: /demos/
  Disallow: /HyperNews/
  Disallow: /cgi-bin/
  Disallow: /Friends/
  Disallow: /api/
  Disallow: /Benoit/Public/DVDDB/
  # Don't exclude validator and docs

Received on Monday, 17 October 2005 13:34:29 UTC