- From: Ray Butterworth <rbutterworth@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:18:49 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
According to section 3 of RFC 2396,
an absolute URI must begin with "<scheme>:"
and a relative URI must not.
It also says that the authority part of a URI must be preceded by "//".
So that would mean that something like:
href="http:foo.html"
is not legal, though I believe some browsers treat "foo.html"
as a relative reference (as the author likely intended)
and some as a site name.
Assuming my interpretation above is correct,
the question is, can your "http://validator.w3.org/check?uri="
service be taught to notice such invalid URIs and report them?
Received on Wednesday, 19 June 2002 11:05:15 UTC