283941 - Backslash in URL leads to 404

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64488

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Shai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

A URL containing a forward slash is not parsed correctly and is leading to a 404
error, while changins the forward slash to backslash solves the problem.
change this URL:
http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~azriel/SetTheory/Text\sets1.pdf
to
http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~azriel/SetTheory/Text/sets1.pdf

solves the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Your report makes more sense if you use the word 'backslash' to represent
the symbol '\'.

You are probably getting the 404 error because the URL in question
is not found on the server www.ma.huji.ac.il .

You might want to read Bug 176312 "Windows backslash file separator not 
recognized"

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Changed Summary word forward slash to backslash

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid

a backslash must be escaped in a URL a Mozilla does this (see RFC RFCs (2396).
Only the webserver reports a 404 but that's not Mozilla's problem

I may work in IE but IE violates the RFC

Comment 4

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

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