297867 - Relative path resolution incorrect when using frames

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 254785

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I see this bug was reported in #254785, but no fix was given

Basically when frames are used in html pages, and a hyperlink using a relative
path is clicked, in one of the frames. Firefox resolves the url as being in the
root.

eg. (note: these urls provided for example only, not real urls)
absolute path for html pages is www.somesite.com/somefolder/somepage.htm
and the link source is so   <a href="test.htm">link</a>
firefox resolves the link to be at www.somesite.com/test.htm instead of
www.somesite.com/somefolder/test.htm

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to www.plexos.info
2. in the tree click Properties --> market --> is forward
3. in the frame on the left hand side there is a hyperlink "Market"


Actual Results:  
clicking this link does not find the page it is resolved as
www.plexos.info/market.htm

Expected Results:  
should be resolved as www.plexos.info/Reference/market.htm

Comment 1

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

If you found that there was already a bug already opened for your issue, why did
you open a new one?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254785 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

note: this seems to be because the java applet is passing
Reference\Market,IsForward.htm, which somehow we or the server resolves
properly, but this isn't a valid separator, so we assume its just a character.

Backslash isn't legal on the Internet, so fixing the java tree to not use
backslash should fix this....

Comment 3

[Richard]

(In reply to comment #2)
> note: this seems to be because the java applet is passing
> Reference\Market,IsForward.htm, which somehow we or the server resolves
> properly, but this isn't a valid separator, so we assume its just a character.
> 
> Backslash isn't legal on the Internet, so fixing the java tree to not use
> backslash should fix this....

Thanks heaps Mike, changing the Java tree paths did the trick