- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:14:13 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Brian P. Giroux" <bgiroux@crosswinds.net>
- cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Brian P. Giroux wrote: > I have created a custom .dtd file > <http://bipolarworld.vianet.ca/HTML401-strictplus.dtd> and a test file > <http://bipolarworld.vianet.ca/test2.html> to test it. When I try to > validate it using W3C's validator > <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbipolarworld.vianet.ca%2Ftest2.html&ss=> > it tells me that: > > | Error: could not get "/HTML401-strictplus.dtd" from > | "bipolarworld.vianet.ca" (reason given was "File Not Found") > > The WDG validator > <http://htmlhelp.org/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbipolarworld.vianet.ca%2Ftest2.html&input=yes> > gives me a similar result, without explicitly saying that it did not > find the .dtd file. It seems to work fine with the WDG validator, which supports name-based virtual hosts when fetching DTDs. The W3C validator does not send a Host: header when fetching DTDs, and so it doesn't work with your name-based virtual host. -- Liam Quinn
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