- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:12:29 -0500
- To: Duen-wen Hsiao <edvwkh@hotmail.com>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
Hello,
On 26-Jan-09, at 9:12 PM, Duen-wen Hsiao wrote:
> I have a question for you. One of our instructors is using w3c
> validator for her classes. However, we are using authtype = digest
> instead of basic for authentication for each individual student's
> webpages. And looks like the w3c validator does not work.
Yes, unfortunately, due to the way digest authentication works, there
is no way (or rather I should say, none known to us) we could have the
validator proxy the authentication for digest-auth protected
resources. See ramblings on the topic here:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qa-dev/2007Feb/0000.html
One solution I could think of would be to install the validator on
your internal network and then set up your web server to not require
authentication for that particular host/IP.
Hope this helps,
olivier
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Received on Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:12:38 UTC