Bug#542000: Tries to load DTDs from the network

Mon Aug 17 09:19:06 UTC 2009

Florian Weimer wrote:
> Package: libxalan2-java
> Version: 2.7.1-5
> Severity: grave
> 
> Running "java -jar /usr/share/java/xalan2.jar -DIAG -XSL t.xsl -IN
> References.html", I receive the following error message:
> 
> (Location of error unknown)java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd
> 
> References.html starts like this:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> 
> It seems that W3C has begun enforcing some sort of AUP on their DTD
> repository.
> 
> This should also be fixed for stable and oldstable.
> 
> 

Are you sure, this wasn't a temporary problem? I can access
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd both with my browser (iceweasel)
and fetch it with wget.

Particularly, HTTP 503 is explained as [1]:

The Web server (running the Web site) is currently unable to handle the
HTTP request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the
server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will
be alleviated after some delay. Some servers in this state may also
simply refuse the socket connection, in which case a different error may
be generated because the socket creation timed out.

~Niels

[1] http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E503.html

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