- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:27:03 +0100
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: Joel Yliluoma <bisqwit@iki.fi>
On 02.11.00 at 12:20, Joel Yliluoma <bisqwit@iki.fi> wrote:
>W3C validators do not encode urls correctly in the links they make:
>
>If I try to validate an url containing &, for example
>by specifying:
>
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://somehost/?a=1%26b=1
>
>I get the result correctly, but the links the page gives, are like:
>
> http://validator.w3.org/something?uri=http://somehost/?a=1&b=1
>
>which gives b=1 to the validator instead of keeping it as a part
>of the url to be checked. I hope I made my point clear...
Oy!
You made your point just fine, but I'm having trouble wrapping my head
around the multiple levels of encoding going on here. I /think/ I see where
we're going wrong, but I'll have to test some to make sure. .diff once I
get it... :-)
Thanks for reporting it.
--
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Received on Thursday, 2 November 2000 17:32:33 UTC