289389 - Cannot interpret backslash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64488

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Stuart Rainsford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

I wrote a page with the following line of code:
<form method="post" action="\members.php" onSubmit="return validateForm(this)">

As you can see, I have used a backslash instead of a forwardslash.
IE interprets this and changes it to a fowardslash and loads the required page.
Firefox does not do this, and instead returns the following error:
"The requested URL /\members.php was not found on this server."

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>IE interprets this and changes it to a fowardslash and loads the required page.
That is a "bug" in IEbecause this violates the RFCs. 
You can only use a slash as path seperator and in general you have to escape a
backslash 

-> invalid (no bug)

Comment 2

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

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