WWWC visit

[keyplyr]

Every so often, I see WWWC has requested a few pages. Is this a crawl they initiate or would it be more likely that someone is using their tools to check my code?

[PsychoTekk]

this useragent W3C_Validator/1.183 libwww-perl/5.50 or this one
Jigsaw/2.2.0 W3C_CSS_Validator_JFouffa/2.0 are the w3c's tools
that can be used by anyone.
i don't think the w3c crawls websites on its own?

[keyplyr]

It showed as: WWWC/1.01 and instead of "GET" it used "HEAD" to request the page.

[keyplyr]

211.12.82.XX - - [24/Mar/2002:01:01:27 -0800] "HEAD /XX.html HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "WWWC/1.01"

Anyway, it caught my interest because I had never seen it in my logs before a week ago. Now it's every couple days. The IP is Japan. (some info replaced by XX)

(edited by: keyplyr at 10:52 am (utc) on Mar. 24, 2002)

[PsychoTekk]

hm that's weird.
in case it was a crawl by w3c to test something then
1st: why do they use an old version and
2nd: w3c tools just make sense in combination with the body
of a document so why should they just request the header?
do you have an ip? i'll see which ip's i can find in my logfile..
<added>
my it always takes me so long ;)
k here's the ip from my log:
18.29.1.x (always the same) for the html validator
--> MIT / U.S.A.
and 138.96.249.x for the CSS validator
--> somewhere in france
it seems the services are spread all over the countries
so there might be different ip's for different versions maybe?
</added>

[keyplyr]

Maybe the reason the W3C Val only got the HEAD is because I currently am not using a DTD. Makes me wonder though, who is so interested in checking my code that they would take the time to use the W3C Val? Maybe I'll just leave the DTD off - LOL