- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:18:24 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, <www-validator@w3.org>
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Olivier Thereaux wrote: > 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... It's netscape Enterprise/3.6. www.mozilla.org also runs that, and has similar problems with HEAD (returns a 500 error at present). L. > 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 > > <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
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