Re: Atom link problem - my feed URL's filter by parameters &<something>=<something>, my feeds drop dead when I plug in the url with these parameters from Dag-Erling Smørgrav on 2009-11-18 (www-validator@w3.org from November 2009)

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:38:23 +0100
To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Cc: Hanson.Michael@epamail.epa.gov, www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <86ocn0uhxc.fsf@ds4.des.no>

David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk> writes:
> I *think* it is expecting the ~ characters to be represented as %7E.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or not.

IIRC, although it is widely used, ~ is not allowed in a URL, so you
could argue either way: reject it because it is invalid, or accept it
because it is so common.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no

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