- From: Ilya Konstantinov <www-validator@future.shiny.co.il>
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:55:57 +0200
- To: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:12:27PM +0900, Olivier Thereaux wrote: > - you are negotiating, on your server, CSS and HTML resources. > Negotiating should be done among equivalent resources in different > formats or languages, which means negotiating some content and their > stylesheet is a bad (abusive) use of format negotiation. You're right. I eventually changed the CSS files' name -- since CSS is not an alternative for the content and I no longer have problems using the Validator. > I do acknowledge that to cope with such (wrong) situations the Markup > Validator should probably send a Accept: header stating a preference > for content it can validate itself, but the situation should, > generally, not happen if no-one abuses format negotiation... I guess it doesn't _have_ to handle abuse, so that's left as a feature request. However, sending the user browser's Accept-Language along with the Validator's requests can still be a good idea (to match what the user sees and what the Validator sees).
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