- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:04:17 +0100
- To: www-validator-css@w3.org
- Cc: "Edward A. Locke" <huygens1962@yahoo.com>
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:57:38PM -0500, Edward A. Locke wrote: > > I find that I am able to submit URIs with ampersands to the XHTML > validator, but not the CSS validator. > This will be evaluated: > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fspacestamps.amhosting.com%2Fstamps%2Fissue.php%3Fent%3Dnev%26set%3D1 ... which gives a "check [your css] for validity" link ... > This won't: > http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://spacestamps.amhosting.com/stamps/issue.php?ent=nev&set=1 ... which doesn't go to that URL, but to: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fspacestamps.amhosting.com%2Fstamps%2Fissue.php%3Fent%3Dnev%26set%3D1 Certain characters have special meaning in URLs, and & is one of them. Since you have an & in your URL and you want to pass it as data, not as a query string parameter separator you need to URL encoded it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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