Re: validator error: considers "&c=" as html entity when not(?) from David Dorward on 2007-07-18 (www-validator@w3.org from July 2007)

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:40:04 +0100
To: Sanjay Chellapilla <sanjayc@ksu.edu>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <78BF7476-6F6F-4F47-9C97-C4B5D2D83FF5@dorward.me.uk>

On 17 Jul 2007, at 02:13, Sanjay Chellapilla wrote:
> I'm writing to ask about the W3C HTML Validator error
> in classifying the following URL as invalid since it contains
> a key "c" with a value consisting of "=" characters,
> in a GET request. The URL is:
> http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d? 
> k=0144KkHhqYi5eqAOnsUshuOg==&c=9bFP_BxDd- 
> edCpRQmjqwnKmdksWCXUXAeCGJbrNw-P4=

Because, as the error message explains, and points to a FAQ which  
also explains, and specifically mentions in bold text that URLs are  
not an exception to the rule: A URL that is written in an HTML  
document must use HTML syntax to represent characters which have  
special meaning in HTML (such as &). And it tells you the fix, which  
is to use to use the entity for & - &amp;.

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David Dorward
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