Re: Validation result uri link encoding

At 2003-08-31T13:06+0100, martin@lucas-smith.co.uk wrote:-

> an encoded version of the URL is given. e.g.
>
> http://validator.w3.org:8001/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foobar.com%2Fpath
>
> Is there any need for this? I.e. couldn't

Yes.

> http://validator.w3.org:8001/check?uri=http://www.foobar.com/path
>
> be used instead?

Perhaps. The current version of the validator does allow that
representation. Some (broken) user agents may resolve relative path
references based on such a URI incorrectly.

> Aren't / and : legal characters in <a href= > links?

Yes (see the start of the first URI), but they are reserved in the query
string.


Tim Bagot