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Although this shouldn't affect applications, some xml parsing libraries request the defining URI. For those that don't know, these URIs are for unique identific
by mrspandex 15y ago
Although this shouldn't affect applications, some xml parsing libraries request the defining URI. For those that don't know, these URIs are for unique identification, not necessarily a real URL.
The W3C has major problems with browsers doing this for DTDs: http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic/ http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dt...
- funkah 15y agoA couple years ago my company had something that was breaking because W3C finally started denying these requests. Whatever broke was some braindead XML thing as you say. The lame hack, which I believe is still in place, was to put w3.org in the hosts file and serve the file locally.