Re: validator fails to check htaccess protect pages...

* Gerard Saunders wrote:
>Hi, We have installed the W3C Markup Validator locally however
>we are having issues checking any webpage protected by a .htaccess
>file. There are no issues with non-htaccess protected pages.

That's because by default the Apache webserver will not provide the user
name and password to the check script. You can work around that by using
a special compile time switch for Apache or some module to work around
this security measure. See

  http://www.google.com/search?q=http_authorization+site:w3.org

for some clues.
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Received on Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:18:01 UTC