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Bug 3191 - Suggested revalidation URI should have query-string ampersands (and semicolons) escaped
Summary: Suggested revalidation URI should have query-string ampersands (and semicolon...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: CSSValidator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: main pages/translations (show other bugs)
Version: CSS Validator
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olivier Thereaux
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
URL: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=htt...
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Reported: 2006-05-03 23:59 UTC by t36l8pi02
Modified: 2007-09-27 02:36 UTC (History)
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Description t36l8pi02 2006-05-03 23:59:21 UTC
This link works:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DMediaWiki%3ACommon.css%26action%3Draw%26ctype%3Dtext%2Fcss&usermedium=all

On that page, it says that you can also access it via this link:

"
If you would like to create a link to this page (i.e., this validation result) to make it easier to re-validate this page in the future or to allow others to validate your page, the URI is:
          http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css
"

But that link doesn't work because the ampersand things are treated as part of the w3.org URL (and ignored) instead of the wikipedia URL.  The CSS validator ignores them and gives you the results for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css

, which is not a CSS document.

It should not give you links that won't work.
Comment 1 Olivier Thereaux 2006-05-04 03:12:30 UTC
The URI of the document just validated should indeed be URI-escaped.
Comment 2 Olivier Thereaux 2007-09-27 02:36:38 UTC
fixed in CVS by Julien. adding test case.