referer not working?

Greetings,

I have this code in my HTML 4.01 page, which I have been checking with
the validator for many years -- thanks for that:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

.....

<A href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><IMG
    src="W3C-HTML40.gif" width="88" height="31" alt="HTML 4.0"
    class="borderless"></A>


The specific referer page that I'm trying to validate is
https://spacearchitect.org/pubs/pub-biblio.htm

Now when I click this validator link, the validator defaults to the Nu
version -- https://validator.w3.org/nu/ -- which does not check the
specific referer page but rather truncates the referer to the top-level
domain https://spacearchitect.org/

As far as I know, nothing has changed in our website to hide the
specific referer page -- but between WordPress and the ISP's servers
I guess I don't know for sure.  (The page I'm trying to validate is
old school hand-coded.)

Is there a different URL to force the non-NU version that still works
with the specific referer page?  Or can the Nu version be corrected to
do that?

Best regards,

-- 

Ted Hall

Received on Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:13:56 UTC