278857 - firefox fails to understand backslash as forwardslash, Internet Exporer does

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64488

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dhruv]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: 



Try making a link:
Say, a hypothetical page (THAT EXISTS), but try opening it with the following 
link in Internet Explorer:
http://www.foo.com\test.html (Original link)

IE will resolve it as:
http://www.foo.com/test.html

Now, try opening the same (original, incorrect) link in Firefox.

Firefox will not be able to resolve this wrong link.

I suggest this should be resolved.

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PLEASE NOTE: foo.com/test.html is a dummy page that DOES NOT EXIST. YOU WILl 
need to create your own such link.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
http://www.foo.com\test.html cannot be resolved.

Expected Results:  
resolve the link correctly.

http://www.foo.com\test.html

should have resolved in Firefox as:
http://www.foo.com/test.html
just as it does in Internet explorer

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid

per RFC: A "\" must be escaped and Mozilla (including Firefox) does this correctly.
Ie is broken in this case.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

correct, "\" is an invalid character in URL's

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64488 ***