uri=referer not working?

I have this code in my HTML 4.01 page, which I have been checking with
the validator for many years -- thanks for that:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

.....

<A href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"><IMG
    src="W3C-CSS.gif" width="88" height="31" alt="CSS 2"
    class="borderless"></A><BR>


The specific referer page that I'm trying to validate is
https://spacearchitect.org/pubs/pub-biblio.htm

Now when I click this validator link, the validator does not check the
specific referer page but rather truncates the referer to the top-level
domain https://spacearchitect.org/

As far as I know, nothing has changed in our website to hide the
specific referer page -- but between WordPress and the ISP's servers
I guess I don't know for sure.  (The page I'm trying to validate is
old school hand-coded.)

Is there a different URL to force the old behavior?  I tried replacing
"referer" with the specific page URI, but got the same behavior.  If I
encode the : and / characters as %3A and %2F, then the validator
complains that "The URL isn't available on that server."

Best regards,

-- 

Ted Hall

Received on Friday, 25 June 2021 11:57:05 UTC