FW:XHTML validator - possible bug
"Kaiser Ralot" <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:39:23 -0500
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To whom it may concern,<BR> = My name is Roman Ali and I am a second-year undergraduat= e<BR>computer science student at the University of Manchester. I am a= <BR>technology enthusiast, and therefore happened to be browsing your<BR>we= bsite for no particular reason other than to learn a bit more about<BR>Web = development. Anyway, recently I had clicked on one of your =93valid<B= R>XHTML=94 links (found at the bottom of most of your Web pages) and found<= BR>that some of these pages did not actually validate. This seemed<BR= >somewhat ironic, and amusing, for a person such as myself, considering<BR>= the fact that the World Wide Web Consortium is considered to be the<BR>worl= d authority of Web development. I let you know of this via email.<BR>= Today I clicked on one of these pages again and was pleased to see that<BR>= it did validate. However, the results page (which says the referring<= BR>page has validated) also had a link to validate it (i.e. to validate the= <BR>result=92s page). The result=92s page arising from that also had = a link in<BR>the same fashion. This trend continued for all the resul= ts pages I<BR>received. It occurred to me that this could negatively = affect your<BR>systems IF you have not anticipated this in advance, and hav= e not<BR>pre-emptively put in measures to deal with such a situation. = You<BR>probably have put in any necessary measures to deal with such a<BR>= situation, but I felt obliged to express my opinions just in case you<BR>ha= dn=92t. I am sure you have understood what I have said, but in case I= <BR>have not been clear enough, I shall give an example below.<BR><BR>If I = click on the =93valid XHTML 1.0=94 link at the bottom of the page<BR>locate= d at: HYPERLINK<BR>I receive the following results page: HYPERLINK<BR>http<= BR>://validator.w3.org/check?uri=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fvalidator.w3.org%2F<BR>If I= then click on the =93valid XHTML 1.0=94 link at the bottom of the<BR>resul= ts page I have just received, I receive another results page:<BR>If I then = click on the =93valid XHTML 1.0=94 link at the bottom of this new<BR>result= s page I have just received, I receive another results page:<BR>HYPERLINK<B= R> <BR>In my opinion, if some malicious person, or someone who isn=92t= malicious<BR>but ignorant, keeps continuing to click on the =93valid XHTML= 1<A href=3D"http://incest-taboo.org/incest-taboo-board/index.php">.</A>0= =94 links<BR>found on the results pages of validations he/she has carried o= ut in an<BR>iterative manner, the long addresses generated by such validati= ons could<BR>possibly negatively affect your systems and/or their browser.&= nbsp; This is<BR>not a professional opinion as I am a student at the moment= with limited<BR>knowledge. I would appreciate it very much if you wo= uld kindly let me<BR>know whether the opinion I have expressed is true or n= ot. I ask for<BR>this just so that I may increase my knowledge even f= urther. <U>Thank you.</U><BR>Yours faithfully<BR> &n= bsp; Roman Ali.<BR><BR>---<BR>Out= going mail is certified Virus Free.<BR>Checked by AVG anti-virus system <BR= >Version: 6.0.771 / Virus Database: 518 - Release Date: 28/09/2004<A href= =3D"http://incest-taboo.org/incest-taboo-board/">..</A><BR><BR> --=20 <p>___________________________________________________________<br>Sign-up f= or Ads Free at Mail.com<br> <a href=3D"http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/payment/adtracking.cgi?bannercode= =3Dadsfreejump01" target=3D"_blank">http://www.mail.com/?sr=3Dsignup</a></p>