271350 - franklin-grant.ru - website expects %5C (aka '\') to be treated like '/' - so relative images don't show (invalid IMG src paths)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Description

[Alexander Amzin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

In the page at
http://www.franklin-grant.ru/ru/news2/data/news_06/2004_11%5C20041118_132248_is.asp

there must be image displayed (IE displays it). 

Code: <img width=442 height=211 src="20041118_132248_is/image001.jpg">

If you'll look for image properties:
IE:
http://www.franklin-grant.ru/ru/news2/data/news_06/2004_11/20041118_132248_is/image001.jpg
Firefox:
http://www.franklin-grant.ru/ru/news2/data/news_06/20041118_132248_is/image001.jpg

So, Firefox "eats" %5C symbol.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to url attached
2. Compare with IE
3. Compare image address

Actual Results:  
Image have different addresses in IE and Firefox.

Expected Results:  
It have to have the same one.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

%5C is the "\". The webserver there allows / and \ for the /. So the correct URL
for the page is
http://www.franklin-grant.ru/ru/news2/data/news_06/2004_11/20041118_132248_is.asp
and now it works with the images. The images itself are correctly linked. The
%5C is not detected as a path separator. The site should not link the articles
with "\" aka %5C. Please inform the webmaster.

%5C corresponds to '\' which does NOT separate URL parts and is not equal to
'/'. See RFC 2396 for a description of how relative URLs are meant to be
handled. Mozilla is following the RFC correctly. The problem here is that
Internet Explorer incorrectly treats '\' as '/' ... that breaks the RFC.

over to tech evang

Comment 2

[Alexander Amzin]

(In reply to comment #1)
> %5C is the "\". The webserver there allows / and \ for the /. So the correct URL
> for the page is
> http://www.franklin-grant.ru/ru/news2/data/news_06/2004_11/20041118_132248_is.asp
> and now it works with the images. The images itself are correctly linked. The
> %5C is not detected as a path separator. The site should not link the articles
> with "\" aka %5C. Please inform the webmaster.
 
Thanks!

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

images broken also in IE7