Re: Difference between URI and uploading

I should have though of immediately of check the header fields.
Could I suggest that the validator read the content (like the browser) when requesting a "Validate by URI”.

Thanks


> On 7 Mar 2023, at 17:24, Chuck Houpt <chuck@habilis.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 7, 2023, at 10:15 AM, M.T. Carrasco Benitez <mtcarrasco@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The validator reports a fatal error for this URI:
>> http://limes.lu/en/2
>> 
>> The second character in the file: “!”
>> <!doctype html>
> 
> I think the problem is that the server is not sending a Content-Type header for that page. Other pages on the site (e.g. top level) do have a Content-Type header and are accepted by the validator fine. You can see the difference with browser dev tools, or Curl:
> 
> % curl -I http://limes.lu/en/2
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> ...
> 
> % curl -I http://limes.lu/    
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Content-Type: text/html
> ....
> 
> Of course it would be nice if the Validator produced a better error message for this situation.
> 
> - Chuck

Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2023 13:34:05 UTC