- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:09:34 -0400
- To: www-validator@w3.org
At 17:52 -0700 2002-08-13, Thanasis Kinias wrote: >FWIW, I would have to agree with Björn on this from an end-user >perspective. _Normally_ I would want a validator simply to return an >error if it gets a 404, but a switch (like the DOCTYPE and charset >overrides) to validate 403/404/whatever error pages would be quite >useful. What would be problematic would be validating the 404 page by >default, as it could be confusing to get the ``No errors found!'' result >when I've miskeyed a URL. Did I missed something? Except for built-in Web server error pages (which is bad because not modifiable), the Error pages are often real files like for example http://www.example.org/Error404.html So you still have the possibility to give the address of this page and validate it without having a 404 code from the server but a 200.... -- Karl Dubost / W3C - Conformance Manager http://www.w3.org/QA/ --- Be Strict To Be Cool! ---
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