271354 - icsfilm.net - website expects %5C (aka '\') to be treated like '/' for image links (invalid IMG src paths)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Charles Wittig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

This is a page with thumbnails and original JPG photos. It does not display on 
both copies of Firebird on my laptop and PC, but it appears on IE with no 
problems.  I can't find any default settings affecting this.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Just go to the page


Actual Results:  
Pictures (JPGs) do not display.

Expected Results:  
Displayed JPGs

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

The website uses wrong hrefs for the images. All images are linked as
images\Thumb001_01.jpg etc. IE transforms the "\" to the correct "/". But the
files are in images/Thumb001_01.jpg etc. So all image links get a 404 error
because Mozilla tries to load
http://www.icsfilm.net/11-20-04/images%5CThumb001_01.jpg. 

%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.

Please inform the webmaster. He should CORRECT the links. 

over to tech evang

Comment 2

[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.