RE: Bug: non-working page validates successfully

From: Thanasis Kinias (tkinias@asu.edu)
Date: Thu, Apr 26 2001

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    Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:13:21 -0700
    From: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@asu.edu>
    To: "'Terje Bless'" <link@tss.no>, Richard Bingham <R.Bingham@ed.ac.uk>
    Cc: www-validator@w3.org
    Message-id: <A021872EC2BDD411AB3600902746A05501604837@mainex4.asu.edu>
    Subject: RE: Bug: non-working page validates successfully
    
    Terje wrote:
    
    > That said, optional checking of URIs, as a separate feature, is something
    I
    > think would be a usefull addition to the Validator and which might show up
    > at some point.
    
    It seems to me that this is a job for checklink, not the validator.
    
    Much to my surprise, checklink silently corrects the hrefs by escaping the
    spaces (%20) and reports no error.  Shouldn't checklink report the link as
    broken, since it isn't a valid URL?
    
    Thanasis Kinias
    Information Dissemination Team, Information Technology
    Arizona State University
    Tempe, Ariz., U.S.A.
    
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