On 19 Jul 2012, at 2:20 PM, Faraz Khan wrote: > Our firewall is open to everyone for port 80 and 443 on our server. It's a > public website. Some of your other tools such as CSS validator works just > fine, so why not html validator. What is the difference in connection > between css and html validators. Do you use some special user agent string? > > > I will keep looking on our end.
My colleagues wrote: "the site is filtering based on user-agent, and explicitly filtering the markup validator's UA string" and "ok, with mozilla or wget UA string => ok, if I use the markup val UA string (W3C_Validator/1.3), it timeouts" Hope that helps... Ian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Jacobs [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:19 AM > To: Ian Jacobs > Cc: Faraz Khan; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Markup Validation Service > > > On 19 Jul 2012, at 8:59 AM, Ian Jacobs wrote: > >> >> On 19 Jul 2012, at 8:31 AM, Faraz Khan wrote: >> >>> For the past few days I have not been able to validate my website at >>> http://www.law.asu.edu. Each time a 500 read timeout is returned while >>> using the tool. Other tools such as CSS Validator are working. Is there a >>> problem with your tool? >>> >>> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.asu.edu >> >> Faraz, >> >> Apologies for the inconvenience. There may have been some minor issues the >> past few days. >> >> It may also be a question of a tool making a lot of requests; see our FAQ on >> this topic: >> http://www.w3.org/Help/Webmaster#slowdtd > > Follow-up: It seems our validator is blocked from accessing your site. It > could be a firewall or web server configuration. Unfortunately I think it's > on your end that this is happening. > > Ian > >> >> Please try again and let me know if the issue persists. >> >> Ian >> >> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Faraz Khan >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Ian Jacobs ([email protected]) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ >> Tel: +1 718 260 9447 >> >> > > -- > Ian Jacobs ([email protected]) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ > Tel: +1 718 260 9447 > > -- Ian Jacobs ([email protected]) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
