W3C URL validation

[Urmo5]

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.

[Newsgroup_User]

Urmo5 wrote:
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> 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'.

[Urmo5]

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.

[Newsgroup_User]

Why won't something like this work?

<a
href="page.cfm?cat=#rsTest.cat#&subcat=#rsTest.cat#">#rsTest.item#</a>

The & replaces the &

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Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Fordwebs, LLC
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"Urmo5" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:fv786p$cgm$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> 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.
>

[Newsgroup_User]

Ken Ford wrote:
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> The & replaces the &
>

This is the correct way to escape the '&' character that separates
name-value pairs in the URL query string. You use the %38 to escape the
'&' character if it is part of one of the values.

<a href="url-test.html?id=abc123&title=dick%26jane">Test URL</a>

Link to URL Encoding hex codes.
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp

[Newsgroup_User]

Ian Skinner wrote:
> You use the %38 to escape

*%26* -- I am not sure where %38 came from that would be a 'h' character.