Re: Fwd: XML Schema validation and https redirects

> I included some rough stats in my initial message in the thread:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xmlschema-dev/2022Aug/0000.html

Right. Thank you. I only saw that after I rejoined the list.

> but it's hard to say what all the applications might be that show up
> as a generic UA like 'Java/*'

Yeah, that’s a darned shame.

> We are getting some useful data as comments on the blog post,
> https://www.w3.org/blog/2022/07/redirecting-to-https-on-www-w3-org/

Yes. I interpret the comments about “getting the HTML page instead of
the schema” as being the tools that don’t follow redirects: they get
whatever page you serve with the 301 response.

> 1) making this change will cause any use of XML Schema to break
> (sounds like that's not the case),
>
> 2) this may be a minor nuisance in the short term, but workarounds are
> readily available, or
>
> 3) this should only impact a handful of people using outdated
> software.

I’d have been inclined to say mostly 2 or 3 as my guess, but some of the
comments on that weblog post are a little alarming. As I feared, not
following redirects is a common problem and if libxml2 doesn’t work,
that’s going to be an issue for a bunch of people, I expect.

I feel for the folks who managed to put “getting the XSD from
www.w3.org” into the critical path for logging in to their site without
supporting redirects.

> We are hoping our current 3-day https redirect experiment in progress
> will give us insight into which of these is the case.
> https://status.w3.org/incidents/dhv59mm7kdw6

Good luck! 

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                                          norm

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