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Re: Permission override

From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:05:07 +0200
Message-ID: <4D823F43.9070505@iki.fi>
To: www-validator@w3.org
On 03/17/2011 12:26 PM, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> Ville,
> 
>   A Debian user has reported the following to us. I can reproduce and 
> fix the issue, but I thought you might be interested:

I don't think it would be appropriate for the configuration snippet
included with the validator to do something like that.  We don't know
what the server admin's intentions are and thus blindly overriding
possible access restrictions with "allow from all" doesn't sound good to me.
Received on Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:05:38 UTC

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