I have not noticed any cases in which mozilla (and netscape 6.0 for that
matter) fails to send a request with a Host header. I'm not on a Win2k
machine, however, so perhaps it is something that only shows up on
Win2k... hmmm. At any rate, on WinNT 4.0sp5, I can run the validator on
the page http://timbooker.com/index.shtml without any trouble at all.
I'll have to try this on a Win2k machine.
Darin
Kevin Berkheiser wrote:
> The following is extracted from a conversation that has been going on
> for a few days now on the W3C's Validator Newsgroup. Do any Necko
> engineers have any comments.
>
> I have not really been following the thread, but I wanted to see if
> there was an easy answer.
>
> The newsgroup archives are here:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/
>
> Kevin Berkheiser
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:03:39PM +0000, Orso Grigio wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, tim booker wrote:
> > > http://timbooker.com/index.shtml in the address box.
> > > Then I get the 500 error.
>
> > If i telnet to timbooker.com on port 80 and send by hands a HTTP
> > request, e.g.
> >
> > GET /index.shtml HTTP/1.0
> > accept: */*
> >
> > i get a 500 error too...
>
> This server seems to be returning 500's if there is no 'Host:'
> header specified on incoming requests. (does NN6 really not
> supply a Host: header!? If so, that's a terrible bug. I'm away
> from my usual desktop system right now so I can't check easily.)
>
> Anyway, I don't know why tim would have had trouble using the
> validator with his site; it works now and nothing has changed on
> this side.
>
