- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:36:19 -0400
- To: H.Hahn <h.hahn@hahn-informatica.nl>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hello, On 3-Aug-08, at 11:07 AM, H. Hahn wrote: > While developing a website, I wanted to validate a certain page that > is password-protected. Did you use HTTP level password protection (the validator can proxy that kind of authentication) or form-and-session-cookie? The latter, obviously, the validator can not handle, and the best way to check such pages is to use direct input or file upload. > As I was logged in at a sufficiently high level, having access to > all pages, I tacitly expected the validator to have the same rights > as its invoker (i.e., me) had. Fortunately, no. > Only after I re-validated with displaying the complete source code, > I found that it had not validated the requested page, but the "Page > not found" page. Basically, this was correct, as the validator > apparently was refused access to the page. Not sure why the lack of authentication would return a "page not found" page. That does not sound right. > However, both the validator's address field and the validation > result text mentioned the correct URL of the original page, without > any mention of the "Page not found" page. That's a problem with your system. The validator correctly displays redirected URLs. e.g see: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FConsortium%2FLegal%2Fipr-notice and look at the Address: Field. Thank you. -- olivier
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