The following is an error message from Total Validator, a Firefox
extension. The message includes the code. This is cut-and-paste code,
and I even retyped the hyphens, just in case. The W3C validator passes
this page as HTML 4.01 strict, but Total Validator finds this problem.
I am OC enough to want to fix it. Can someone point me in the right
direction?

Bad characters found in link in attribute 'src':
<img src="/cgi-sys/Count.cgi?df=greenepe-index.dat|display=Counter|ft=6|md=5|frgb=100;139;2 16|dd=U"
alt="DataPunch hit counter">

Jan

Jan wrote:

The following is an error message from Total Validator, a Firefox
extension. The message includes the code. This is cut-and-paste code,
and I even retyped the hyphens, just in case. The W3C validator passes
this page as HTML 4.01 strict, but Total Validator finds this problem.
I am OC enough to want to fix it. Can someone point me in the right
direction?
>

It's the "|" that triggers that.

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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Jan wrote:

This is cut-and-paste code,

Give the URL of the page!

Do not post source text!

Jan:

<img src="/cgi-sys/Count.cgi?df=greenepe-index.dat|display=Counter|
ft=6|md=5|frgb=100;139;216|dd=U"

The <|in the URL probably causes the warning. RFC3986 does not allow
<|in URLs (<|was an "unwise", i.e., excluded, character in
RFC2396). Replace <|with the percent-encoding <%7C>.

This is not an error that a validator should report, because it isn't a
validation error. The src attribute is defined as CDATA, so pretty
much anything goes. If it felt really nice, a validator could report
this as a warning but not as an error.

That pseudo URL falls down on other counts though, such as length,
meaningfulness, and rememberability.

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Jock