- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:30:21 +0100
- To: Włodzimierz Kubera <wlodzimierz@kubera.info>, www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:47:35 +0200, Włodzimierz Kubera <wlodzimierz@kubera.info> wrote: > Why address > http://validator.w3.org/check/referer > is not correct (I click the "Valid XHTL" icon > and I see an error). > Something was changed? Most likely you have starting using a browser or proxy server that attempts to protect your privacy by either (acceptably) not sending a referer header, or (breaking the http specification) by sending a nonsense value for that header. Without the referer header, the validator can not tell where the user has come from. Given the increase in the use of such proxies, I think it would be wise to generate hard coded values for the links in the code sample generated for valid pages... at least where possible, this couldn't (for instance) be done for files validated via upload. -- David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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