[Bug 4586] LWP retrieves empty page

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4586





------- Comment #13 from link@pobox.com  2007-05-28 23:18 -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> In fact, the "keep-alive" is crucial for the redirection to succeed.

Just to make sure I'm being clear... That the server is behaving differently —
by not returning the document data — when the Connection header field is set to
'close', is a bug in the server and not a problem with the Validator.

Both of the test cases I quoted should have behaved identically up to that
point.

HTTP Keep-Alive should only have had any effect _after_ the full document was
returned to the client.


> Only those guys who developed the markup, link and css validators are able to
> determine why in earth the markup validator is unable to read my contents.

The Markup Validator, quite correctly, simply happens to not make use of the
(optional) 'Keep-Alive' feature of HTTP, and, it would appear, the two other
tools cited happen to make use of it. That the server behaves differently for
the two cases is a bug — incorrect behavior — in the server (IIS 5.0).

Received on Monday, 28 May 2007 23:18:15 UTC