Re: Validator

On 24-Nov-04, at 7:56 PM, Roger W. Haworth wrote:
> If you submit a URL that simply does not exist, you get:
>
>> Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because its content type 
>> is
>> application/octet-stream, which is not currently supported by this 
>> service.
>
> or
>
>> No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
>
> depending on which browser you are using.
>
> Surely you can manage a more explict:  Document not found
I can't manage to reproduce this. If I try a URL with a bad hostname I 
get the
message 500 Can't connect to dud.domain.ca:80 (Bad hostname 
'dud.domain.ca')
If I try a URL that gives a 404 error I get the message 404 Not Found

Despite this that error message does seem familiar to me.

Paul Norman

Received on Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:44:34 UTC