- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:21:15 +0900
- To: <lholst@robotics.lu.se>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
Greetings Lars, On Monday, Jul 28, 2003, at 18:43 Asia/Tokyo, Lars Holst wrote: > Under the root directory, I have an "index.shtml" file that redirects > the > visitor to another directory where the actual index file resides as a > php > file, as follows: > > <meta http-equiv="Refresh" Content="0; > URL=http://www.inug.nu/en/home/" /> Please read <http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/reback>: <meta http-equiv="Refresh"> is not a recommended (i.e, it's ugly) way to do a redirect. The Markup validator does supports the recommended HTTP-based redirects. > If the validator could be made to follow these kinds of redirects it > would > be helpful. Not sure about this either. If someone tries to validate a file, the validator should probably validate this file, not whatever it refreshes to after n seconds (I know, the case n=0 is a limit case but better forget this practice anyway). cheers, -- olivier Thereaux - W3C - QA : http://www.w3.org/QA/ http://www.w3.org/People/olivier | http://yoda.zoy.org
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