https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121362

--- Comment #10 from orcmid <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #9)

> > Are you saying that a NIST
> > web page has a link that is not a well-formed URL?
> ***Go to
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
> Search for 'Josephson',then click 'Josephson constant', get
> http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?kjos|search_for=josephson
> ... with a '|'.

Yes that URL is incorrect (twice).  

First, '|' is not a pchar, or one of the other characters allowed in a query.

The second mistake is that %7C is not correctly accepted by the web site if
used to encode the '|'.

I suspect this was never caught in any kind of validator because the page is
generated and the URL is processed in a cgi script.  It is interesting that my
browser (IE10 release preview) simply uses the URL as received.  I suspect the
page has been generated that way for a very long time.

Here's the HTML with the link (might not render properly, let's see:
<a href="/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?kjos|search_for=Josephson">

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