290585 - Microsoft program generated webpage gives malformed urls

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Richard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

All links below "Lecture Guides and Supplementary Material"
<http://www.cage.curtin.edu.au/~rde/subfiles/dynsys331/general/contentspage.htm>
links are generated incorrectly. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pick any of the links under "Lecture Guides and Supplementary Material" 
2. You will see in the bar down the bottom that the link contains ellipses


Actual Results:  
It will give a 404 page not found error

Expected Results:  
Linked to the page.

Download
<http://www.cage.curtin.edu.au/~rde/subfiles/dynsys331/general/contentspage.htm>
without rendering it and view source.

It can be seen that the links are generated using some sort of microsoft scripting.

Compare it against the firefox rendered save copy of the page.

They should be different
Firefox:
http://www.cage.curtin.edu.au/~rde/subfiles/dynsys331/general/..%5Cpast_exams%5Cmid_sem_test_1.pdf

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

<a href="..\lecture_guides\grinder_3dof_shaft.pdf"

A Backslash in an URL is invalid. The reporter should correct the "\" to a "/"

-> invalid