- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:18:08 +0900
- To: "Martin RODOT" <martin.rodot@mrit.com>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003, at 18:12 Asia/Tokyo, Martin RODOT wrote: > > Hi, > > trying to check : www.mrit.com/Essais/test.php > > I get an error : "Usually the sign of a malformed URL that cannot be > parsed by the server." > > There is a "require" and relative path The relative path is ../../ for the "/Essais" base path, which means that there are more relative path ".." segments than there are hierarchical levels in the base URL's path. For such a case the relevant RFC (1808) says that parsers should "be careful" (well, thanks, that's useful...). Most parsers will just ignore extra occurences of "..", but that's not a standardized behaviour... That said, should the link checker quietly do as all the current parsers do, or warn you that the URI is fishy. I kind of think that *for a link checker* the latter is not such a bad choice. What do others on the list think? Ville? -- Olivier
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