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W3C's HTML validator unable to find PHP or content negotiated files? Chris Simon 11-16-2004
Posted by Chris Simon on November 16, 2004, 8:49 pm
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A bit puzzled by this...


1. Ask the validator to look at http://www.nantperis.org.uk/index.php.en
(the exact filename of the page) and it brings back an error: 300
Multiple Choices.

I could understand that if the filename was specified without the .en as
there are more than one version of the page in different languages. Is
it stripping the .en? Has anyone managed to get it to find a .en file
or is it a bug I should report?

2. Ask it to validate http://www.nantperis.org.uk/history/church.php,
again the exact filename of the file, I get a 404 Not Found. Again, is
this a bug?


Both the W3C's CSS Validator and Bobby can find both files, even if you
don't include the file extensions so that the server does the job of
returning the correct file.

Would be grateful for comments.

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Posted by Neal on November 16, 2004, 3:53 pm
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:49:52 +0000, Chris Simon

> A bit puzzled by this...
>
>
> 1. Ask the validator to look at http://www.nantperis.org.uk/index.php.en
> (the exact filename of the page) and it brings back an error: 300
> Multiple Choices.
>
> I could understand that if the filename was specified without the .en as
> there are more than one version of the page in different languages. Is
> it stripping the .en? Has anyone managed to get it to find a .en file
> or is it a bug I should report?
>
> 2. Ask it to validate http://www.nantperis.org.uk/history/church.php,
> again the exact filename of the file, I get a 404 Not Found. Again, is
> this a bug?

Let me guess - Windows XP?


Posted by Neal on November 16, 2004, 3:56 pm
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> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:49:52 +0000, Chris Simon
>
>> A bit puzzled by this...
>>
>>
>> 1. Ask the validator to look at
>> http://www.nantperis.org.uk/index.php.en (the exact filename of the
>> page) and it brings back an error: 300 Multiple Choices.
>>
>> I could understand that if the filename was specified without the .en
>> as there are more than one version of the page in different languages.
>> Is it stripping the .en? Has anyone managed to get it to find a .en
>> file or is it a bug I should report?
>>
>> 2. Ask it to validate http://www.nantperis.org.uk/history/church.php,
>> again the exact filename of the file, I get a 404 Not Found. Again, is
>> this a bug?
>
> Let me guess - Windows XP?

Retracted - it does this for me as well.

I don't know the reason, but both pages validate when I run it off my
downloaded source in Opera.


Posted by Chris Simon on November 16, 2004, 9:01 pm
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Neal wrote:
> Let me guess - Windows XP?

Yes, actually!

You've since said that this is not the problem but out of curiosity, why
would this make a difference? Is there some strange known problem using
the validator with XP? I can think of the firewall....but every other
page I've got is found perfectly OK. This is the first time I've
uploaded content negotiated and PHP pages and they are the only pages
that are not found.

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Posted by Neal on November 16, 2004, 4:06 pm
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:01:18 +0000, Chris Simon

> Neal wrote:
>> Let me guess - Windows XP?
>
> Yes, actually!
>
> You've since said that this is not the problem but out of curiosity, why
> would this make a difference?

There's a known bug with XP and the validator. It's been posted here
often. I took a wild guess here, but if it's affecting me too, it cannot
be that bug.

As I could validate from my cache, but not from your server, I suspect the
server is not serving the content properly. This is, however, way out of
my league, so I can't help you further.


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