- From: Jan Dudík <jdudik@volny.cz>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 13:18:48 +0200
- To: "Terje Bless" <link@pobox.com>, "W3C Validator" <www-validator@w3.org>
- Cc: "Philip TAYLOR [PC336/H-XP]" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
OK, Thanks for all. Fortunately it was only temprorary restriction, now is everything all right. I thing it's good idea to make something like www.w3c-validator.cz and in Czech language too. I hope, i will find someone who knows something about linux etc. and will make something. I have tried A Real Validator, but there was some problem with national characters in document (not supporting the windows-1250 charset). Maybe it was some old version with support of HTML 4 only. Best regards JAn Dudík > >Jan's problem is that he cannot access the W3C validator via his Czech > >ISP; if a Czech site were to host a 'mirror' of the W3C validator (that > >is, if a Czech were to be able to offer a service identical to that > >offered by the W3C for validation), then Jan and his Czech colleagues > >would be able to validate their pages. What Jan therefore needs is a > >pointer to a document which specifies how the Validator can be ported to > >another host. It would then be up to Jan to find a Czech host which > >would be willing to mount and support the service. > I'm afraid I know of no "mirrors" of the Validator hosted in .cz or .sk. It is > possible to install a local copy (mirror) of the Validator on most UN*X-ish > systems (Debian and Red Hat Linux are the best supported). Documentation for > this is available at <http://validator.w3.org/docs/devel.html> and > <http://validator.w3.org/source/>. Unfortunately the documentation for this is > rather poor, and to make matters worse the Validator does not make itself easy > to install. You'll need some experience with Linux, Apache, and Perl (or > access to a friend who has) to do this. > > > Alternately you could use Liam Quinn's most excellent "A Real Validator for > Windows" <http://www.arealvalidator.com/>. It gives equally accurate results > as the W3C online version but it can be used "locally" and is a *lot* easier > to install if you have access to a Windows machine. > > > > PS. You might want to discuss this policy with your hosting provider. > Presumably the policy is in place to limit bandwidth useage to what > is reasonable for the intent of the service. But this consideration > does not really apply to requests from the Validator so perhaps an > exception might be made?
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