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" <[email protected]>, 2009-02-23 15:32 -0500: > This has nothing to do with docbook. > > Send email to [email protected] 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:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, 2009 February 23 14:25 > > To: [email protected] > > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
