- From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:56:57 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Saturday 20 February 2010, Makoto Mizukami wrote: > Hi there, > > > It does not say so to me. > > http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fkoti.welho.com%2Fvskyt > >ta%2Ftest.html > > I meant that it occurs if I use the validator WITH the url; > namely, I mentioned this result: > http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=data%3Atext%2Fhtml%3Bcharset%3DUTF-8% > 2C%253C%2521doctype%2520html%253E%253Cmeta%2520charset%253D%2522UTF-8%2522% > 253E%253Ctitle%253E%253C%252Ftitle%253E%253Ca%2520href%253D%2522%2523text%2 > 522%253ELink%253C%252Fa%253E%253Cdiv%2520id%253D%2522text%2522%253EText%253 > C%252Fdiv%253E%250A > > I'm not sure whether a fragment-only reference in the document whose > URI scheme does not accept relative references is valid, I think the results in these cases are more or less undefined. > but I think that resolution (#text -> data:#text) is somewhat odd. I think it can be argued to make sense: the link in your doc is "#text" and when one makes a new absolute URI using that as a relative URI reference using a data: URI as the base, it becomes "data:#text" because the data: base URI does not support relative references and thus its whole scheme specific part becomes "#text". (By the way FWIW I suppose data: URIs do not support fragment identifiers in the first place either, which adds another layer of undefinedness.) Ditto if one would try to convert a non-fragment relative URI to an absolute one using a data: URI as the base (e.g. "test" with your URI above as the base would resolve to "data:test"). The behavior of link checker in this case comes pretty much as is from the perl URI module, I suggest discussing with its author or reporting a bug if you think this is incorrect or could be improved. http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI/
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