Re: [EXT] bug repport about tilde removal in referer

On 17/04/2022 22:51, Saašha Metsärantala wrote:
> Hello Philip!
>
> Thanks for your e-mail! I should probably clarify this issue.
>
>> From my browser (Seamonkey 2.53.11.1, Win-64), the link successfully 
>> validates
>> https://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/jats2dbk/ (or at least claims to).
>
> It claims to validate … but it "validates" some other code. Indeed, it 
> says: "HTML 4.01 Transitional", despite of the fact that 
> https://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/jats2dbk/ is valid "-//W3C//DTD 
> XHTML+RDFa 1.1//EN". 

Not the behaviour I experience here, Saašha — here the validator says :

>
>     This document was successfully checked as -//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa
>     1.1//EN!
>

> What is valid "HTML 4.01 Transitional" is
> https://www.acc.umu.se/ which is rather different. This is also 
> obvious if you check the URI at the top of your browser window, which 
> says
> https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acc.umu.se%2F and 
> not
> https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acc.umu.se%2F%7Esaasha%2Fjats2dbk%2F 
> as it should if it would keep the referer intact.

Actually, my location bar contains something infinitely more complex :

> https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acc.umu.se%2F~saasha%2Fjats2dbk%2F;accept=text%2Fhtml%2Capplication%2Fxhtml%2Bxml%2Capplication%2Fxml%3Bq%3D0.9%2C*%2F*%3Bq%3D0.8;accept-language=en-GB%2Cen%3Bq%3D0.5
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/Philip Taylor/