167628 - northwestplaces.com should not use Backslashes for directories

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Kostub]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

If you click on a link in 
http://www.northwestplaces.com/GWestCir.htm
for example,
http://www.northwestplaces.com/tripsea\GWC-Sea.htm
then it is %encoded to
http://www.northwestplaces.com/tripsSea%5CGWC-Sea.htm
instead of
http://www.northwestplaces.com/tripsSea/GWC-Sea.htm



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit the above link
2.Click on any of the links
3.

Actual Results:  
Get a page not found error.

Expected Results:  
Should have shown
http://www.northwestplaces.com/tripsSea/GWC-Sea.htm

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> TE

"\" is not allowed. We accept "\" only in the URL Bar for windows users but a
URL with "\" as link is invalid

Comment 2

[Kostub]

If you make a webpage using microsoft word, it uses \ instead of /.
And almost everyone who makes webpages uses/will use microsoft products.

Comment 3

[Susie Wyshak]

Note: Netscape 4.x also does not handle \ although IE does.
Why do we translate \ if you type it into the address bar wrong but not if it's
wrong in an HREF??

Adding [ie-quirk] in whiteboard and reassigning to Browser.

1) Issue in Word occurs when you add an HREF via the Insert | Hyperlink| Local
File interface. If you pick a website URL it uses /
  -I will try to evangelize Microsoft, however for masses of smaller sites we can

2) A top site - terra.es - had another example where an image using a \ got
converted to http://www.terra.com.br/carroonline/img%5Cver_mais.gif which could
not be displayed.

Comment 4

[Susie Wyshak]

sorry changed summary again; and reassigning.

Comment 5

[timeless]

\ is an unsafe character but it's *not* the directory sep char, if we
automatically substitute / for \ we will start failing tests. We can't do that.

this is an evangelism bug.

I've filed bug 167858 about treating 404 as "file not found, guess again", it'll
make server admins really upset at mozilla but hopefully they'll complain to the
people who generated the bad links instead of us.

Comment 6

[Susie Wyshak]

Does IE fail tests because of this? What tests?

Comment 7

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

The problem is that \ is valid in a file name. If you translate \ to /, then I
can't use that char in the name.

See bug 167858 for more on this.

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 9

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.

Comment 10

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.