Re: validator.nu claims CONTROL_CHARACTER in QUERY from cvsweb?

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:55:29 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 17:41, Dan Connolly wrote:
>
>> For no particular reason, I checked this page with validator.nu:
>>  http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2008/test-harness/
>>
>> One of the diagnostics I got baffled me:
>>
>> --8<--
>> Error: Bad value testsuite.php?rev=1.2&stWWW/w3c_home$
>> --d��content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup for attribute href on element a:
>> CONTROL_CHARACTER in QUERY.
> [...]
>> huh? The string "w3c_home$" doesn't occur in the source of the page.
>> Nor does "stWWW". What's going on here?

Seems to be the same as http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=287


> This looks like fallout from recent parser changes (see  
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/performance-mistake/  ) and wasn't caught by the  
> test suite.
>
> Thank you for reporting this. I'll investigate.
>


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