- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:51:18 +0900
- To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 05:26 Asia/Tokyo, Jean Delvare wrote: > I have found what could be a bug in checklink. I have one link on my > page to http://www.logitech.com/. Checklink reports it as broken (404 > Not Found) but you can check it by yourself, logitech's website is up > and running. So, anyone has an idea of what's going on ? The problem is that the web server at www.logitech.com is broken, HTTP-wise... Using the HTTP GET method (which your browser uses), you get the document, but using the HEAD method (which the link checker uses), the server returns: 31/10 14:37 ot@wasabi ~% HEAD http://www.logitech.com/ 404 Not Found Connection: close [etc.] This is wrong, and violates the HTTP specification... There is, unfortunately, not much we can do on our (linkchecker) side as long as people use broken servers. -- Olivier Thereaux - W3C - QA : http://www.w3.org/QA/ http://www.w3.org/People/olivier | http://yoda.zoy.org
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