123220 - benyehuda.org : links in main page use backslash instead of forwards slash, and therefor are broken in mozilla

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Hebrew, defect)

Description

[Shoshannah Forbes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020201
BuildID:    2002020103

http://www.benyehuda.org has links to diffrent sections on it's main page. those
links contain a backslash instead of a forward slash, and therefore produce a
404 with mozilla. IE/win transalats backslashes to forward slashes, so the link
work for IE/win users.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the above url
2. click on one of the links


Actual Results:  404

Expected Results:  slashes should be correct.

contact info for the site: [e-mail]

Comment 1

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

The problem may have been caused by automatic generation of HTML pages
via Microsoft Word. This is a problem for not only Mac Mozilla and 
Netscape 6.2 or later and Windows Mozilla or Netscape 6.2 or later, 
but also for Mac IE users.
For Windows Mozilla/NS users, there is a workaround, if you right-click on
the problem link like:

http://www.benyehuda.org/rachel\ 

and choose the menu item "Open in a new window", Mozilla seems to re-write 
"\" to "/". I wonder if not re-writing "\" to "/" in a document-embedded
URL is a bug in Mozilla. (CC'ing gagan and darin for opinion.)

Anyway, the site owner Asaf Bartov was contacted. Let's see what 
he says. Chaging it to assigned.

Thanks, Shoshannah.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

cc'ing andreas since he'll most likely have some comment about '\' fixup ;-)

Comment 3

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Asaf Bartov responded and said that he changed the "\" to "/".
Shoshannah, can you check the links and see if they work now?
As to what we should do with "\" to "/" and differences in behavior,
let's open a new bug if it is something we should fix.

Comment 4

[Andreas Otte]

Right, darin! ;-)

There are already a bunch of bugs about this and the differences in behaviour.
See for example bug 122270. Docshell still does the \-fixup on XP_PC builds.
Going through a new window seems to go through docshell.

This fixup should only happen when mozilla gets fed with a real filepath,
otherwise not. It may be a common error on windows to use \ instead of / but
doing this fixup effectivly prevents looking at some pages which follow the rfcs
to the letter. Why do we punish those people? 

A compromise might be to have another kind of fixup that tries different version
of an uri based on from where it is called, something like first try with \, if
that succeeds all is fine, otherwise replace some of the \ with / and try again.

Comment 5

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Well,  the site  has fixed those slashes, so marking  FIXED.
>A compromise might be to have another kind of fixup that tries different version
>of an uri based on from where it is called, something like first try with \, if
>that succeeds all is fine, otherwise replace some of the \ with / and try again

That shound like the best approch to me. Should I file that as a new bug
(assigned to whom?) or should we copy that comment to the relavent bug (what
number)?

Comment 6

[Andreas Otte]

Moved my comment over to bug 122270. I proposed that change one or two years
ago, the problem is, it would be in my opinion a major rewrite of the way we
call uris in mozilla. Not likely to happen anytime soon ...

Comment 7

[Brant Gurganus]

Site appears dead.
Verifying
2002031403/WinXP

Comment 8

[Shoshannah Forbes]

checked here, and the site is alive and well. However, this bug has indeed been 
fixed.

Comment 9

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Moving it to Hebrew per reorganizaiton.