W3 validator breaks W3 link checker! from rowe@excc.ex.ac.uk on 2001-03-22 (www-validator@w3.org from March 2001)

From: <rowe@excc.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:02:58 GMT
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <19358.200103222102@deimos.ex.ac.uk.ex.ac.uk>

Thanks for making the on-linevalidator available, our 'standard'
template includes a discrete link to http://validator.w3.org/check/referer.

But when I manually run checklink on such a page the validator sends
back a redirect to http://validator.w3.org/ (presumably because it
can't tell which page the request comes from) which checklink then
complains about!

Could the validator check the user agent for W3C-checklink and if so
just return something harmless?

Thanks

John

Received on Thursday, 22 March 2001 16:03:00 UTC