autarkper/Html5ValidatorPlus — Issue #2: Validating Non-Cached Password Protected Pages (Cookies)
Author: bnomis
Created: 2011-11-26 04:48:37+00:00
State: open

The pages I was trying to validate were password protected and non-cacheable (has the do not cache header). When I tried to validate the page, the request to load the page got re-directed to the login page because the authentication cookie was not sent to the server. That is, I could only validate the login page. After turning everything off, hacking the code and trying another profile I found the reason: third party cookies. When I added localhost (I was serving from localhost) to the white list of cookie exceptions in the security/history preferences it all worked. So if you are using custom preferences for Security/History this will affect you and you'll need to add the server to the list of allowed exceptions.

Thanks for making this plugin available.