Re: [EXT] bug repport about tilde removal in referer

On 17/04/2022 21:00, Saašha Metsärantala wrote:
> It seems that an issue has appeared with the validators. As you 
> probably know, a tilde is commonly used as a prefix for user names. At 
> the bottom of
> https://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/jats2dbk/ I have a link to
> https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer but it seems that any 
> character in the referer is removed after the slash immediately 
> following the domain name. Thus, I get a repport about the validity of
> https://www.acc.umu.se/ instead of
> https://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/jats2dbk/

 From my browser (Seamonkey 2.53.11.1, Win-64), the link successfully 
validates https://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/jats2dbk/ (or at least claims to).

-- 
/Philip Taylor/