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
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