Skip to main content
U
Urmo5
Participant
April 29, 2008
Question

W3C URL validation

  • April 29, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • 598 views
I have an XHTML (Transitional) page that includes absolute URLs to ColdFusion pages. These URLs include characters, such as &, that the W3C won't validate unless I change the characters to their ASCII equivalents. However, if I do this, then the URL doesn't work.

Is there a way to validate ColdFusion URLs in W3C's validator?

Thank you.
    This topic has been closed for replies.

    1 reply

    N
    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    April 29, 2008
    Urmo5 wrote:
    >
    > Is there a way to validate ColdFusion URLs in W3C's validator?
    >

    There is not such thing as an "ColdFusion" URL. A URL is an URL and
    ColdFusion processes whatever the web server passes it as the URL.

    What are these special characters doing and why can't you escape them.
    You do realize that there is a different escaping scheme for URL's then
    there is for HTML. You don't use '&' but rather the ascii code of
    '%36'.
    U
    Urmo5Author
    Participant
    April 29, 2008
    I'm not a ColdFusion developer - so I'm not sure why our URLs have these characters in them. I'll ask one of our developers.

    No, I wasn't aware that there is a different escaping ASCII scheme for URLs. Is there a list of these available somewhere?

    Thanks for the response.
    Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
    Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices