- From: (unknown charset) Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 05:06:03 +0100 (BST)
- To: (unknown charset) Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- cc: (unknown charset) W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
> Waitaminute... We end up requesting a different page and that page happens > to be invalid? Yep. > So the extra params aren't affecting _our_ behaviour, it's > the _lack_ of params that makes the _validated_ server change _it's_ > «behaviour»? No. Validator requests wrong page. Validator's fault. > IOW, it's not an error in the Validator -- the error lies with > the user failing to escape CGI params By what standard is ;1 a CGI param? Not by anything official. > -- it's just that it would be a > usefull feature to actually give a warning about it to make the user aware > that s/he needs to escape these characters? Yes, we complain of unknown entities. But that is not the issue here. Indeed there is only one issue: does a character need URLEscaping? * If yes, then we should complain of the URL, not the document * If no, then the author is fully entitled to use it and expect user agents to cope. Both the Valet and the WDG Validator are happy with http://www.art-emilio.de/galerie.shtml?Acryl;1 -- Nick Kew Site Valet - the essential service for anyone with a website. <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>
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