Re: [docbook] w3.org won't serve DTD imbedded in Docbook generatedoutput - but only to IE

["Michael(tm) Smith" <smith@sideshowbarker.net>]

For more info on this problem and how the W3C systems deal with it, see:

  http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic

"Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>, 2009-02-23 15:32 -0500:

> This has nothing to do with docbook.
> 
> Send email to webmaster@w3.org for something like this.
> 
> But your application probably shouldn't be trying to
> retrieve a resource at that URL.  If everyone always
> hit the W3C server every time they did anything with
> XHTML it would be a disaster, and most likely what
> you are seeing is the result of some code put in by
> the W3C webmaster to prevent just this.
> 
> paul
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Leech [mailto:jon@alumni.caltech.edu] 
> > Sent: Monday, 2009 February 23 14:25
> > To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: [docbook] w3.org won't serve DTD imbedded in Docbook 
> > generated output - but only to IE
> > 
> > 
> >      We're having a weird problem with some content generated 
> > by Docbook, such as
> > 
> > http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glTexImage2D.xml
> > 
> >      At some time relatively recently, this has started 
> > failing with IE, although
> > it still works fine with Firefox. Our server admin has chased 
> > this down as far as
> > finding out that when
> > 
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
> > 
> > is fetched with an IE 7 User-Agent, it's rejected by 
> > www.w3.org with the following
> > resulting from the HTTP dialog:
> > 
> > HTTP/1.1 503 Go away
> > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:32:48 GMT
> > Server: Apache/2
> > Content-Location: msie7.asis
> > Vary: negotiate,User-Agent
> > TCN: choice
> > Retry-After: 86400
> > Cache-Control: max-age=21600
> > Expires: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:32:48 GMT
> > P3P: policyref="http://www.w3.org/2001/05/P3P/p3p.xml";
> > Content-Length: 2
> > Connection: close
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > 
> >      Looking at the P3P document referenced from this doesn't 
> > shown any
> > obvious reason for the error. I tried to figure out an appropriate W3C
> > mailing list to inquire on but there are dozens of them and nothing
> > springs out as being obviously relevant. Has anyone else run 
> > into this?
> > Any idea what's happening and how we might address it?
> > 
> >      Thanks,
> > 
> >      Jon Leech
> > 
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