Re: Bug report from Rich Pasco on 2018-01-19 (www-validator@w3.org from January 2018)

From: Rich Pasco <rich@pasco.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:20:42 -0800
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <79714dda-3c0c-a717-9ce7-8d1cb2b4989c@pasco.org>

While I agree the behavior is surprising,  I can understand how it
happens.  I don't see the security problem, as you could get the same
result by just entering https://validator.w3.org as the page to be
validated.

On 2018-01-17 8:01 PM, Romain Lebbadi-Breteau wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried to put http://localhost in the address to validate and the 
> website checked itself (https://validator.w3.org), I think it could be a 
> security problem.
> 
> 
> 
>

Received on Friday, 19 January 2018 08:21:10 UTC