This is so unfair! I am using eclipse with many xml and xhtml files. The Eclipse validator is very faithful and does DTD/schema checks all the time. So it happened that the w3cs servers had enough of my requests and started to deliver only a 503 response. They announced to do something like that in the following document:
http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic
Now I started developing some application that reads mediawikis through the Java Wiki Bot Framework (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jwbf/), which is very nice … BUT! … whenever I try to get a page from a wiki, the framework wants to check the DTD. The DTD can’t be checked due to the w3c problem above. Hence, an Exception is thrown:
( jwbf-generic-mediawiki-DEVEL )
net.sourceforge.jwbf.core.actions.util.ProcessException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
I reported a bug to jwbf (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2969840&group_id=192186&atid=940382), but I would rather like to have my DTDs checked. If w3c can’t handle the impact of their standards, they should think again before they suggest DTD-checking.
So unfair…
Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
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