- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:35:27 +0900
- To: David L.Greene <Dave@DLGreene.com>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Jun 24, 2007, at 03:51 , David L. Greene wrote: > My Web page: > Has Validator links at the bottom of every page but, when used, the > validator "says" there is a server error 505. 500, actually. This means "server error". It's a tough one to diagnose, it took me a number of retries to finally get that error. Most of the times, at least, validation performs fine. I tracked the error 500 to a timeout. In other words, in some circumstances the validator just takes too long validating your page, and the web server that controls it decides to kill the validation process. What takes so long, I'm not certain. I guess either: * network problems between your server and the validator's * since you are using XHTML 1.1 (the modular version of XHTML), validation implies fetching a large-ish number of DTD and entities files from www.w3.org, and unfortunately some of the www.w3.org web mirrors these days get slowed down by broken bots, broken software and computer attacks. A few tests with other XHTML 1.1 pages show some very slow validation, so I am suspecting the latter. Will look into it further.
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