Re: Validator can't connect problem

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:01 +0000, Mark Mower wrote:
>  
> I have recently installed the W3C Validator service on a Fedora 4
> server..
>  
> I am able now to validate uploaded files or by typing in HTML text.
>  
> When I try and validate a Uri I get the following error message (I
> tested by validating www.gogole.com)
>  
> 500 Can't connect to www.google.com:80 (Bad hostname 'www.Google.com')
> [...] 
> Does anyone have an idea as to why I get this error message?

SELinux problem?  Unfortunately the Validator doesn't quite work with
the targeted SELinux policy of FC3+, and I'm not aware of specific
instructions how to fix that at the moment apart from disabling SELinux.
See /var/log/audit/audit.log and/or /var/log/messages to determing if
this is the case.