[xep-support] Re: SVG graphic goes missing

[Chris Lilley]

On Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 11:53:24 AM, Jirka wrote:

JK> Mark Giffin wrote:

>> and both failed on it. Could the W3C server be screwed up in some long
>> term way?

JK> That's not bug, but feature. W3C decided to serve most requests for DTDs
JK> with 503 error code, because their servers were overloaded. Not very
JK> clever decision in my opinion, though.

Not clever the  way you describe it, but your desription misses out a few details.

If a given IP address requests the same resource multiple times than a progressive throttling is employed (delays, then refusal). Once it stops doing that, the throttling stops again.

Normal usage is unaffected.


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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
 Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups


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