diff --git a/linkcheck/src/main/org/apache/maven/plugin/linkcheck/validation/FileLinkValidator.java b/linkcheck/src/main/org/apache/maven/plugin/linkcheck/validation/FileLinkValidator.java
index 92928dae..d1e054e6 100644
--- a/linkcheck/src/main/org/apache/maven/plugin/linkcheck/validation/FileLinkValidator.java
+++ b/linkcheck/src/main/org/apache/maven/plugin/linkcheck/validation/FileLinkValidator.java
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ public final class FileLinkValidator
             if ( link.trim().length() == 0 )
                 return lvi.getSource();
         }
+        if ( link.indexOf( '?' ) != -1 )
+        {
+            link = link.substring( 0, link.indexOf( '?' ) );
+
+            //If the link was just ?param=something or similar, then the file is the file it came from
+            //XXX: Theoretically we could even validate the anchor tag?
+            if ( link.trim().length() == 0 )
+                return lvi.getSource();
+        }
         File f = new File( lvi.getSource().getParentFile(), link );
         return f;
     }
diff --git a/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml b/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml
index 5ab2f5fc..6e160dcc 100644
--- a/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/linkcheck/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.4.1-SNAPSHOT" date="In SVN">
+      <action dev="aheritier" type="fix">Links to local files with a parameter aren't found.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update" issue="MAVEN-1755">Upgrade maven-model to version 3.0.2.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="update">Update jelly dependency to match the ones in maven 1.1 core.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="fix" issue="MPLINKCHECK-27" due-to="Dennis Lundberg">Maven 1.0.x : The report is incomplete if one or more files has errors in them.</action>