- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-validator-0009@earth.li>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:25:56 +0000 (UTC)
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
- Cc: <martin@lucas-smith.co.uk>
At 2003-08-31T13:06+0100, martin@lucas-smith.co.uk wrote:- > an encoded version of the URL is given. e.g. > > http://validator.w3.org:8001/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foobar.com%2Fpath > > Is there any need for this? I.e. couldn't Yes. > http://validator.w3.org:8001/check?uri=http://www.foobar.com/path > > be used instead? Perhaps. The current version of the validator does allow that representation. Some (broken) user agents may resolve relative path references based on such a URI incorrectly. > Aren't / and : legal characters in <a href= > links? Yes (see the start of the first URI), but they are reserved in the query string. Tim Bagot
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