Re: Different results when validating by URI or Direct Input

• From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
• Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:10:23 +0300
• To: Andreas Gomm <andreas.gomm@gtech.se>
• CC: www-validator@w3.org
• Message-ID: <5016416F.80700@cs.tut.fi>

2012-07-30 7:57, Andreas Gomm wrote:

> I´m getting different results when I´m validating my website by direct
> input and by URI. When I copy/paste the html source it validates fine
> but when I enter the URI I get (some) errors.

The reason is that what you copy and paste differs from what the 
validator gets when using a URI.

> Are the different validation methods using different code for the
> validation?

No.

> The URI I´m testing is:
> http://www.genteycasas.com/es-co/product/terms-of-use

If you check the "Show source" checkbox under "Options", you'll see that 
the page that the server sends to the validator differs from the version 
if sends to browsers - or most browsers, since on Lynx, the markup seems 
to match what the validator gets.

So apparently the server responds differently to different user agents, 
probably via some server-side browser-sniffing.

Yucca

Received on Monday, 30 July 2012 08:10:55 UTC