Ampersands in URLs for redirect

I ran my website address through the W3C Markup Validation process and got errors stating that url variables such as http://www.test.com?var1=one&var2=two is incorrect. You are supposed to use the & instead of the & symbol. This works great for all of my HTML links however it doesn't work for JSP response.sendredirect("") so I still get a few W3C errors. The only way I can get the response.sendredirect("") to work is by using the & symbol.
Thank you for any suggestions

You don't need to change it in the sendRedirect() method. It is part of serverside code and I really don't see how the W3C validator sees serverside code.

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