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Reported by Björn Höhrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>: The advanced interface at [1] POSTs data to the remote resource. I don't like that, but if you want to combine file upload and validation by URI in the same form, you don't have a choice. However, on the result page I get told 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://validator.w3.org:8001/check?uri=<URI> (or you can just add the current page to your bookmarks or hotlist.) The link does not include the advanced options I chose, neither is it possible to add the current page to my bookmarks or hotlist, since the resource is not GETable. Three possible solutions: remove the bookmark note and add parameters to the URI respond with 302/303 and redirect to a parameterized URI make it two forms and GET the results
I think we'll change this to redirect to a GETable URL in the case when there is no uploaded file. Björn and others have suggested this before and it seems like a good way to solve this issue.
Fixed. "check" now redirects to a GETable URL if request method was POST but there was no file upload. cf. http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check?rev=1.267&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup