> The second is when a page's author has mistakenly marked up a bare '&' in
> the URL as '&'. This is - of course - wrong, and htdig does not
> find the page. For example:
>
> 11:11:2:http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dja/test&test2.html: not found
>
> However, Netscape Navigator 4.05 (and probably other browsers) fixes
> this up and presents a link to http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dja/test&test2.html
> Is there an alternative to trying to persuade authors that their URLs
> are wrong even though they work with the usual browsers?
HTML entities are supposed to be escaped, even in a URL string which is
included in a tag, so the proper HTML for the above link is:
<A HREF="http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dja/test&test2.html">
And so the author is correct. Reference in the HTML 4.01 spec is below.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.3.2
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+ Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
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+ The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
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